Beckbury War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 2015. War memorial.
Beckbury War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- waning-gateway-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SJ 765 015
- Coordinates
- 52.61144, -2.3482
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beckbury War Memorial is a churchyard memorial dating from around 1920, with additions made after 1945. It is constructed from red sandstone and features a cross with a tapered shaft, base, plinth, and a stepped platform. The cross has octagonal arms with trefoil ends at both the cap and arms. The tapered, octagonal shaft has a moulded ring at the top where it connects to the cross, along with mouldings above the base. The top of the base is octagonal and tapers down to a square lower section. On the northern side, it is inscribed with the words ‘TO / THE GLORY OF / GOD / AND IN MEMORY OF ALL / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1919 / ESPECIALLY THOSE FROM THIS PARISH’. The other three sides bear the names of the fallen, each side featuring an inscribed cross above the names. The square platform has three steps, and the top step on the north side has been extended, inscribed with ‘AND IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR / 1939 – 1945’ along with additional names listed below.
Local climate
Beckbury War Memorial receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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