St Edward's War Memorial, Leek is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 2016. War memorial. 2 related planning applications.
St Edward's War Memorial, Leek
- WRENN ID
- rusted-mullion-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- St Edward's War Memorial, Leek, Churchyard of the Church of St Edward, Church Street, ST13 6AB
- OS grid reference
- SJ 982 566
- Coordinates
- 53.10674, -2.02697
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Edward's War Memorial in Leek is made of Roche limestone and features a Celtic-style wheel-head cross with shortened cross-bar arms that rises from a tapering shaft. Both the cross and shaft have a rectangular shape.
The front and rear faces of the cross and the upper two-thirds of the shaft are recessed, creating a relief border that is flush with the lower third of the shaft. The side faces of the shaft are also recessed. The front face of the cross and shaft is adorned with Celtic-style carved interlacing motifs, with the ‘IHS’ Christogram prominently displayed at the center of the cross arms in relief. The rear face features a carved Sword of Sacrifice in relief. The shaft is supported by a rectangular block plinth with rounded upper edges, which sits on a three-stepped square base.
The front face of the plinth is inscribed with the years 1914 – 1919, along with the words: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR. THEIR NAMES ARE GRATEFULLY RECORDED ON THE TABLET IN THE CHURCH. ‘GRANT THEM LORD ETERNAL REST’." The left face of the plinth commemorates those who fell in the World War of 1939 – 1945.
Local climate
St Edward's War Memorial, Leek 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Lych Gate, Walls, Railings, Gate and Gate Piers to Churchyard of St Edward
- The Swan Hotel
- 2,3 and 4, Clerk Bank
- 1, Overton Bank
- Cross in Churchyard to South of Church of St Edward
- Parish Church of St Edward the Confessor
- 2, Overton Bank
- Clerk Bank House
- Overton Bank House
- Churchyard Cross Cross in Churchyard to South East of Church of St Edward