Cotton College War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 2018. A 20th century War memorial. 3 related planning applications.
Cotton College War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- iron-postern-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Cotton College War Memorial, Faber Rc Primary School, Cotton Lane, Stoke-On-Trent, ST10 3DN
- OS grid reference
- SK 065 458
- Coordinates
- 53.00997, -1.90445
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cotton College War Memorial is a First World War memorial, erected in 1920 and subsequently altered after the Second World War. It is situated in the village of Cotton, near St Wilfrid’s Church cemetery and the Faber Catholic Primary School.
The memorial consists of an oak Calvary beneath a pitched roof, set upon an octagonal shaft decorated with carved roses. The base of this shaft has four projecting elements, each also carved with roses. The shaft rises from a two-stepped, octagonal Portland stone plinth featuring blind niches on alternating faces, with the names of the fallen inscribed within sunken panels on the others. Raised Gothic script appears around the top of the lower tier of the plinth.
The plinth stands on two octagonal York stone steps, which in turn are set on a cross-shaped slab base. A stone plaque, inset with lead lettering, is positioned on the upper step. The plaque's inscription reads: "SODALIBUS QUI CONTRA INFESTISSIMUS HOSTES FORTITER / DIMIRANTES PRO PATRIA / FRATRIBUSQUE ANINIAE NON / PEPERRERE FILN S. WILFRIDI AD PERPETUAM / BENEFICCI MEMORIAM GRATISSIMI DEDIRARUNT."
Local climate
Cotton College War Memorial receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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 — 13 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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