War Memorial in St Lawrence's Churchyard, Biddulph is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 2017. War memorial.
War Memorial in St Lawrence's Churchyard, Biddulph
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-floor-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial in St Lawrence's Churchyard, Biddulph, Congleton Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 890 590
- Coordinates
- 53.12881, -2.16566
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial in St Lawrence's Churchyard, Biddulph, is a First World War memorial erected in 1921. It is situated to the north of the Church of St Lawrence, which is also a Grade II*-listed building, alongside several other Grade II-listed memorials in the churchyard.
This memorial is made of Cornish granite and features a Celtic wheel-head cross with a knot work design carved in relief on each arm and a round emboss in the center. The wheel includes trefoil tracery between the cross arms. The cross-head is set atop a tapering shaft with a moulded foot, which rises from a two-tier, tapering plinth. Both tiers of the plinth are four-sided, with the lower tier being slightly wider than the upper. The entire structure rests on a regular-coursed, two-stepped stone base, with small square stones at each corner of the lower step. All inscriptions and names are presented in raised leaded lettering.
The main inscription is located on the front (west) face of the upper tier of the plinth, which reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND/ IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/ THE BIDDULPH MEN WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR/ AUG. 1914 – NOV. 1918/ 'THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE'." A further inscription on the rear (east) face states: "THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE." The names of those who died are inscribed on all four faces of the lower tier of the plinth.
Local climate
War Memorial in St Lawrence's Churchyard, Biddulph receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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