Uttoxeter War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the East Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 2015. A 1920s War memorial. 2 related planning applications.
Uttoxeter War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- vast-step-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Burton and Uttoxeter MP: Jacob Collier (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SK 093 334
- Coordinates
- 52.8982, -1.86295
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Uttoxeter War Memorial, built around 1928, is a town memorial located in the Market Square of Uttoxeter. Constructed from Hollington stone ashlar, it has an octagonal shape and is designed in a Perpendicular gothic style, resembling a medieval Eleanor Cross.
The memorial consists of four main stages, which rest on a four-stepped base. Each of the upper stages is supported by eight buttresses, which are topped with decorative finials featuring carved crockets. The central stage includes linenfold panelling in the reveals, with carved tracery above it. The upper stage also displays carved tracery panels that contain bronze grilles, and the entire structure is topped with a carved stone cross.
Originally, bronze plaques commemorating the fallen from the First World War were set into the stone of the second stage, inscribed with the words: "TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF UTTOXETER/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1918". After 1945, additional plaques were added to honor those lost in the Second World War, inscribed: "TO THE GLORIOUS/ MEMORY OF THE MEN/ OF UTTOXETER WHO/ GAVE THEIR LIVES IN/ THE WORLD WAR/ 1939 - 1945", with a Greek Cross below.
Further plaques were added after the Gulf War and the conflict in Afghanistan, including one honoring Sergeant Michael Dowling, killed in the Gulf War on February 26, 1991, and another for LCpl Barry Buxton, who served in Afghanistan on May 3, 2010.
The stepped base is currently obscured by modern timber boarding that has been used to create planters, and the monument is enclosed by a series of modern metal bollards.
Local climate
Uttoxeter War Memorial 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 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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