Diddlebury War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Diddlebury War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- still-solder-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Diddlebury War Memorial, Churchyard of St Peter's Church, SY7 9DH
- OS grid reference
- SO 508 853
- Coordinates
- 52.46407, -2.72533
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Diddlebury War Memorial is a First World War memorial located in a churchyard, dating from around 1920, with an additional inscription added after 1945.
Constructed from limestone ashlar, the memorial features a wheel-head cross atop a tapered shaft with chamfered edges, which rises from a square plinth with a two-stepped base. Positioned to the south-west of the church tower, the memorial is elevated above the churchyard wall and the raised pavement.
The wheel-head cross has splayed ends on its arms and hollow-chamfered edges. At the base of the cross is a band of foliage designed as a laurel wreath. The tapered shaft also has hollow-chamfered edges and inset panels of stylised foliage on the lower body of the shaft on both the western and eastern sides. The plinth features superimposed stone panels on both the east and west sides, likely replacing worn original lettering. The west panel reads: "LIVE THEN FOR ENGLAND / WE FOR ENGLAND DIED / IN / GRATEFUL MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF DIDDLEBURY / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1919 / MAY THEY REST IN PEACE." The names of the fallen are inscribed on the eastern panel. The corners of the plinth are adorned with roll mouldings along their vertical edges.
Local climate
Diddlebury War Memorial receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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