Ball Haye Green War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. A C20 Memorial.
Ball Haye Green War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- lost-merlon-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Ball Haye Green War Memorial, Ball Haye Green Road, Leek, ST13 6PP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 991 572
- Coordinates
- 53.11285, -2.01448
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ball Haye Green War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1922, designed by Mr. W E Beacham and constructed by Thomas Grace and Sons of Leek, with plaques supplied by Messers Baxendale of Manchester.
The memorial features a rectangular plan with gate piers and narrower flanking walls, oriented north-east to south-west along the road. It is made from Alderley Edge sandstone in ashlar for the arch, wall coping, and quoins, with vermiculated sandstone used for the blocks in the walls, and bronze plaques.
The memorial faces south-east towards Ball Haye Green and includes two square columned gateposts with deep plinth bases. These posts support a segmental arch with an embossed keystone, above which is a frieze inscribed with the words ‘PRO PATRIA’. The arch encloses a replacement iron gate and is flanked by short stone walls with scroll tops. Each column features a carved wreath below its stepped top; the southern wreath bears the date ‘1914’, while the northern wreath has the date ‘1919’. Below the wreaths are bronze plaques, each adorned with a Tudor Rose at the top. The plaques list the names of individuals, arranged alphabetically by surname with initials, and categorized into those who lost their lives and those who served and returned.
The inscription on the south column reads:
‘TO THE MEMORY OF THE / FOLLOWING RESIDENTS OF / BALL HAYE GREEN / WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES / IN THE EUROPEAN WAR (26 names in two columns) / THEIR NAME LIVETH EVERMORE / AND/ IN HONOUR OF THOSE RESIDENTS / WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY (39 OF 167 names in three columns)’.
The north column has the word ‘SERVED’ inscribed at the top, with the remaining names of the 167 individuals listed in three columns below.
Local climate
Ball Haye Green War Memorial receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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