Highley War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 2015. War memorial.
Highley War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- silver-tracery-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SO 741 832
- Coordinates
- 52.44666, -2.38172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highley War Memorial is a memorial cross located in the churchyard of St Mary, Highley, unveiled in 1921. It is made of red sandstone with limestone plaques. The cross features a loosely Celtic design with a tapered shaft that rises from a rusticated cairn and stands on a stepped platform. The cross has a wheel head, and the west side includes a raised border around the cross head and shaft. The central panel displays a sword carved in relief, accompanied by the words ‘PRO / PATRIA’ also carved in relief.
The base of the memorial is rusticated and features a central plaque with the inscription: ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND / IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE / FOLLOWING WHO SACRIFICED / THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT / EUROPEAN WAR 1914-1918’. Names of the fallen are inscribed below this plaque and on an additional plaque on the east side. The eastern face concludes the list of names with the words ‘THINK ONLY THIS OF US / THAT THERE’S SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN LAND / THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND’. On the north side, there is a plaque that reads ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN / MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS / PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN / THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM / DURING THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945’.
Local climate
Highley 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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