Old Boys of Vicarage Street School War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Nuneaton and Bedworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 2017. Memorial.
Old Boys of Vicarage Street School War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-jade-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Nuneaton and Bedworth
- Constituency
- Nuneaton MP: Jodie Gosling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 2017
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Old Boys of Vicarage Street School War Memorial, St Nicolas Parish Church, West Midlands, CV11 4AZ
- OS grid reference
- SP 365 916
- Coordinates
- 52.52149, -1.46322
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Boys of Vicarage Street School War Memorial is a First World War memorial erected between 1919 and 1939, with the architect remaining unknown. It is made from carved limestone and is situated within the churchyard of St Nicolas, which is a Grade I-Listed building.
The memorial features a limestone Latin wheel cross with a decorated collar, positioned on an octagonal shaft that rises from a cross-shaped plinth set on a two-stepped base. The inscriptions on the plinth commemorate the souls of the masters and old boys of Vicarage Street Church School in Nuneaton who fell in the Great War from 1914 to 1918. The text includes: "+ REMEMBER BEFORE GOD + / THE SOULS OF THE MASTERS AND OF THE OLD BOYS / OF THE VICARAGE STREET CHURCH SCHOOL NUNEATON / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918 / 'MAY THEY REST IN PEACE' / (NAMES) / THE MEMORIAL WAS REMOVED TO THE CHURCHYARD AND RESTORED IN 1985 / RE-DEDICATED TO THE FALLEN OF THE 1939 - 1945 WAR AND SINCE / FROM THIS COMMUNITY / THEY ARE AT PEACE NOW / 'LORD MAKE US INSTRUMENTS OF YOUR PEACE'."
Local climate
Old Boys of Vicarage Street School War Memorial receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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