Whitehall Recreation Ground War Memorial Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Rugby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 2018. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Whitehall Recreation Ground War Memorial Gates
- WRENN ID
- seventh-chalk-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rugby
- Constituency
- Rugby MP: John Slinger (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Whitehall Recreation Ground War Memorial Gates, Hillmorton Road, Warwickshire, CV22 5AA
- OS grid reference
- SP 508 748
- Coordinates
- 52.36934, -1.25401
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Whitehall Recreation Ground War Memorial Gates are a First World War memorial designed by Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel, dating from 1922. The gates were moved in 1987 and altered in 1999 and 2005.
The gate piers are made of Portland stone and feature wrought iron gates. The memorial consists of a pair of Neo-Classical style gates, with substantial Portland stone gate piers flanking ornate wrought iron gates.
Each pier has a quadrant section with groups of Ionic pilasters at each end and at the rear corners. The central pilasters are fluted, while the others are not. These pilasters support an entablature that includes an architrave, frieze, and a deep projecting cornice. Each pier is topped with three carved urns that have tall finials. The friezes on the piers contain the original inscriptions, with the left pier reading "TO THE MEN OF RUGBY WHO" and the right pier stating "FELL IN THE WAR 1914-1919." The names of the fallen are inscribed on the piers themselves.
After the Second World War, the names of those who fell in that conflict were added to the memorial, along with an inscription on the side of the left pier that reads "TO THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE SERVICE OF THE COUNTRY/ 1939-1945."
Local climate
Whitehall Recreation Ground War Memorial Gates receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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