War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1996. War memorial.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- first-transept-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1996
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, Ashbourne Road, Leek
- OS grid reference
- SJ 987 564
- Coordinates
- 53.10563, -2.02074
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial is a clock tower built from Portland stone and features ashlar channeling on the lower stage. Constructed between 1924 and 1925 and restored in 1994, it was designed by Percy Worthington. The tower has a door and inscribed bronze panels set in advanced moulded architraves on each face. The upper stage includes glazed doors with balconettes and paired round-arched windows, with a clock surrounded by a laurel wreath. The names of World War I battles are inscribed on a frieze below the pyramidal stone roof.
The tower is elevated on steps, with a flanking wall that has cast-iron or bronze gates and lamp standards at the corners. Memorial panels for World War II are located on the flanking wall. This war memorial was a gift to the town from Sir Arthur Nicholson, a local silk manufacturer, and his wife, in memory of their son, Lieutenant Basil Lee Nicholson, and other local men who lost their lives in World War I.
Local climate
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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