War Memorial to the Staff of the Cambrian Railways is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 2016. Memorial.
War Memorial to the Staff of the Cambrian Railways
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-lintel-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 2016
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- War Memorial to the Staff of the Cambrian Railways, Cae Glas Park, Church Street, Oswestry, SY11 2SZ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 289 294
- Coordinates
- 52.85781, -3.05701
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial to the Staff of the Cambrian Railways is located just inside Cae Glas Park, on the left side after entering through the Grade II-listed memorial gates. The memorial consists of a stone pillar approximately 2 meters tall. At the front, there is a bronze statue of a draped female figure looking upwards with outstretched arms. Behind the statue is a marble panel featuring a rising sun motif carved in low relief, bordered by stone.
The statue is positioned on a bronze half pedestal, which has a shallow ornamented bronze shelf beneath it. Mounted on the lower section of the marble panel is a brass plaque inscribed with the words: "THIS TABLET IS ERECTED TO PERPETUATE/ THE MEMORY OF/ THE MEN/ OF THE CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS/ WHOSE NAMES ARE HERE RECORDED AND/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR KING/ AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ (53 NAMES)."
In front of the memorial's base, there is a slate plaque affixed to a small stone. This plaque states: "THIS MEMORIAL REMOVED/ FROM THE CLOSED/ OSWESTRY RAILWAY STATION/ WAS ERECTED ON THIS SITE/ BY OSWESTRY TOWN COUNCIL/ AND UNVEILED BY/ CLLR W.G. JONES/ ON OCTOBER 23RD 1975." This additional plaque is not considered of special interest.
Local climate
War Memorial to the Staff of the Cambrian Railways receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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