Stoke-on-Trent new Cenotaph and surrounding walls is a Grade II listed building in the Stoke-on-Trent local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 2017. Cenotaph.
Stoke-on-Trent new Cenotaph and surrounding walls
- WRENN ID
- kindled-railing-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent Central MP: Gareth Snell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 2017
- Type
- Cenotaph
- OS grid reference
- SJ 878 452
- Coordinates
- 53.00463, -2.18276
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Stoke-on-Trent new Cenotaph is a memorial dedicated to those who served in the First and Second World Wars, erected in 1938. It is constructed from bull-nosed red bricks and features a large cross in relief made of buff brick on each face. The cenotaph is set on a plain red brick plinth with a moulded top, and it tapers towards the top, adorned with a ball finial at each corner that supports a flat capping stone. A bronze plaque on the front face of the plinth bears the inscription "THE / GLORIOUS / DEAD / 1914 – 1918 / 1939 – 1945." Additional plaques commemorate significant battles, including the Battle of Normandy (1944), the Battle of Dunkirk (1940), the Battle of El Alamein (1942), and the Korean War (1950-1953), each set up by various veterans' associations.
The cenotaph is enclosed within a square area surrounded by low walls made of brown brick. Each corner features a canted pier with a flat stone cap, and the openings on each side are decorated with scrolling brickwork.
Local climate
Stoke-on-Trent new Cenotaph and surrounding walls receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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