Cockshutt War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 2019. War memorial. 4 related planning applications.
Cockshutt War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- bitter-spindle-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Cockshutt War Memorial, Church of St Simon and St Jude, Shrewsbury Road, Ellesmere, SY12 0JQ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 434 291
- Coordinates
- 52.85718, -2.84086
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cockshutt War Memorial is a war memorial cross built in 1920, located within the churchyard of SS Simon and Jude, approximately 30 meters south of the church and near the boundary with Shrewsbury Road.
Constructed from Cornish grey granite, the memorial features a Celtic wheel cross with a tapering rectangular shaft. It stands on a two-stepped square base with chamfered corners and a two-stepped square plinth. The head of the cross is adorned with relief moulded knot-work in the arms and a domed circular center.
The main inscription, made with applied lettering, reads: ‘WHO DIES IF / ENGLAND LIVES / TO / THE GLORIOUS / MEMORY OF THE / MEN OF THIS / PARISH WHO LAID / DOWN THEIR LIVES / IN A / RIGHTEOUS WAR / 1914-1918’, followed by the names of 15 fallen soldiers.
At the base of the memorial, there is a polished granite table that bears the inscription ‘IN MEMORIAM / 1939-1945’, listing the names of seven soldiers who fell during the Second World War, along with the phrase ‘GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN / THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE / FOR HIS FRIENDS’.
Local climate
Cockshutt War Memorial receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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