Pensnett War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Dudley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 2019. War memorial.
Pensnett War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- lunar-alcove-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dudley
- Constituency
- Dudley MP: Sonia Kumar (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Pensnett War Memorial, High Street, Junction with Elgar Crescent &Amp; Vicarage Lane, DY5 4JJ
- OS grid reference
- SO 916 892
- Coordinates
- 52.50148, -2.12409
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pensnett War Memorial is a First World War memorial, built around 1927 and altered after the Second World War. It is made of limestone and bronze and is located at the east side of the junction of High Street and Elgar Crescent, near the Grade II-listed Church of St Mark.
The memorial features an ashlar pillar that is triangular in shape, standing on a two-stepped hexagonal base. Each face of the pillar has a carved relief of a Latin cross at the top.
On the east face of the pillar, there is a nowy-headed bronze plaque adorned with wreath and shield details. This plaque bears an inscription that honors the seventy-five men of Pensnett who are among the one million dead of the British Empire from the First World War, stating that they died in various parts of the world and that their graves are cared for by their families. It notes that some are buried in the nearby churchyard, with their names remembered forever. Two identical plaques list the names of the 75 servicemen who fell in the First World War.
Above this dedicatory plaque is another bronze shield-shaped plaque that expresses gratitude for the men of the parish who gave their lives in the Second World War. There are two additional shield-shaped plaques listing the names of those who fell in the Second World War, with a smaller rectangular plaque beneath one of them that includes an additional name.
Local climate
Pensnett War Memorial receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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