Forsbrook and Blythe Bridge War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 2019. War memorial.
Forsbrook and Blythe Bridge War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- calm-rotunda-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent South MP: Dr Allison Gardner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Forsbrook and Blythe Bridge War Memorial, Church of St Peter, Cheadle Road, ST11 9PW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 960 411
- Coordinates
- 52.96752, -2.05984
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Forsbrook and Blythe Bridge War Memorial is a war memorial built in 1921 by Robert Bridgeman and Sons of Lichfield. It is made of Whitbed Portland stone.
The memorial features a gabled Calvary cross with a square tapering shaft and plinth, which stands on a two-stepped octagonal base. The north face of the plinth has a recess for a statue of an infantryman in a mourning pose, holding his rifle reversed.
On the east side of the north face of the plinth, there is an incised inscription that reads: "HERE BENEATH THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS BEHOLD THE NAMES OF OUR BRETHREN OF FORSBROOK AND BLYTHE BRIDGE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 & 1939-1945." The west side of the north face has the inscription: "LET FUTURE GENERATIONS KEEP THEM IN PRAYERFUL REMEMBRANCE GIVING UNTO GOD THE THANKS FOR THEIR GREAT SACRIFICE MAY THEY REST IN PEACE." The names of those who fell in both world wars are inscribed on the east and west faces of the plinth. The north face of the top step of the base reads: "FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH."
The memorial is surrounded by stone kerbing and is located within the car park next to the church.
Local climate
Forsbrook and Blythe Bridge War Memorial receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% 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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