The Boy Scouts War Memorial in Cannon Hill Park is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 2016. War memorial.
The Boy Scouts War Memorial in Cannon Hill Park
- WRENN ID
- turning-marble-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Edgbaston MP: Preet Kaur Gill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- The Boy Scouts War Memorial in Cannon Hill Park, Queen's Ride, Edgbaston, B13 8RT
- OS grid reference
- SP 063 835
- Coordinates
- 52.45025, -1.90829
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Boy Scouts War Memorial is located at the edge of Cannon Hill Park, specifically at the south-west end of Queen’s Ride, and is surrounded by a flowerbed with a path leading to its western face. This area is part of the Grade II* designated Cannon Hill Park, where Queen’s Ride was originally laid out as a riding track in 1897 and later modified in 1920 with the planting of an avenue of trees to honor fallen Scouts.
The memorial is a tall, triangular concrete obelisk that stands on a corniced block with scroll feet, which is itself positioned on a larger, tapering corniced pedestal featuring large scrolled feet. The entire structure rests on a polygonal base.
On the western face of the obelisk, there is a relief of the Toc H lantern, with an inscription below on the pedestal that reads "TO THE/ SCOUTS/ WHO FELL IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ AND THE/ WORLD WAR." The eastern face displays the Scout fleur-de-lis in relief, accompanied by the inscription "PRO PATRIA/ 1914 – 1918/ 1939 – 1945." The northern face features a rose in relief, and below this, the pedestal is adorned with the Scout fleur-de-lis along with a scroll that contains the inscription "BE PREPARED."
Local climate
The Boy Scouts War Memorial in Cannon Hill Park receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% 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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