Alsagers Bank War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle-under-Lyme local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 December 2019. War memorial.
Alsagers Bank War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- peeling-panel-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Constituency
- Newcastle-under-Lyme MP: Adam Jogee (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 December 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Alsagers Bank War Memorial, High Street, Staffs, Audley Rural
- OS grid reference
- SJ 803 488
- Coordinates
- 53.03651, -2.29468
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Alsagers Bank War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1924, with a later addition for the Second World War. It is located within a square enclosure on the edge of St John’s churchyard, set into the slope.
The memorial is made from Hollington stone and features an obelisk atop a tapered, square pedestal. This pedestal rises from a moulded base and is supported by four steps and a concrete platform. Above the pedestal, there is a deep, projecting cornice with egg and dart moulding. The squat, tapered shaft above the cornice has relief carvings of a laurel wreath and two rosettes on each face, culminating in a pyramidal cap. The south-west face of the shaft bears an inscription in black lettering that reads: 1914–1918/ FOR OUR/ GLORIOUS DEAD. The cornice below this inscription is marked with: 1939-1945, and a panel on the pedestal states: FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH/ (NAMES). The side returns of the memorial list the names of those who fell in the First World War, and the cornices are inscribed: 1914-1918. The rear face of the pedestal has the inscription: THEY DIED THAT/ WE MIGHT LIVE, with the cornice also inscribed: 1914-1918.
Surrounding the war memorial are stone balustrade posts, one of which is inscribed with the stonemasons’ surname, connected by chains.
Local climate
Alsagers Bank War Memorial receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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