Nuneaton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Nuneaton and Bedworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 2016. War memorial.
Nuneaton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- small-gargoyle-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Nuneaton and Bedworth
- Constituency
- Nuneaton MP: Jodie Gosling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Nuneaton War Memorial, Riversley Park, Coton Road, Warwickshire, CV11 5TU
- OS grid reference
- SP 363 914
- Coordinates
- 52.51965, -1.46572
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Nuneaton War Memorial is a pink granite structure located in the northern part of Riversley Park, aligned with the Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery and the Boer War memorial. It features a tall Celtic cross with five hemispherical bosses on the cross head. The cross shaft rises from a large, square tapering plinth with a battered foot, which stands on three low steps made of a different stone. The bottom step is adorned with a low ornamental rail of twisted iron, painted black.
The front face of the plinth is decorated with a carved relief of a wreath suspended from a ribbon, beneath which is the main dedicatory inscription: "IN MEMORY OF THE BRAVE MEN/ OF NUNEATON AND NEIGHBOURHOOD/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR/ KING & COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1919/ AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF ALL/ WHO FELL IN THE WORLD WAR/ 1939 – 1945/ 'THEIR NAMES SHALL LIVE FOR EVERMORE.'"
The names of those commemorated are recorded on the other faces of the plinth, on dark stone plaques inserted into it. On the rear, there is an inscription that reads: "THEY WROUGHT TO SAVE/ US & TO SAVE US DIED." This line comes from the temporary memorial that was in place before the current monument was erected in the park.
Local climate
Nuneaton 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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