Cressage War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 2017. Memorial.
Cressage War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- wild-courtyard-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 2017
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Cressage War Memorial, Road Junction in Village Square, Shrewsbury, SY5 6AD
- OS grid reference
- SJ 591 041
- Coordinates
- 52.63363, -2.60505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cressage War Memorial is a village war memorial that was unveiled in 1920. It is made of Grinshill sandstone, which is hammer dressed, and takes the form of a Celtic cross with a tapered shaft. The tapered base is set on a platform with a single, stepped plinth, and the memorial is located at a crossroads in the center of the village.
The wheelhead of the cross features a central boss with arms shaped like segments of a circle and a recessed circlet. The tapered base includes an inset plaque that reads ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN HONOURED MEMORY / OF THE FOLLOWING MEN / WHO DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1918.’ This plaque lists eight names of the fallen.
On the opposite side of the base, there is an inscription added to commemorate those who lost their lives in the Second World War, which reads ‘1939 – 1945/ IN MEMORY OF/ A. MANNING./ F. ROBERTS.’
Local climate
Cressage War Memorial receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 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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