Walsall Wood War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Walsall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 2019. Memorial.
Walsall Wood War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- steep-terrace-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Aldridge-Brownhills MP: Wendy Morton (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 2019
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Walsall Wood War Memorial, St John's Churchyard, High Street, WS9 9LP
- OS grid reference
- SK 047 032
- Coordinates
- 52.62685, -1.93163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Walsall Wood War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in the 1920s, located in the churchyard to the south-east of St John’s Church. It is made from limestone and features a stone Celtic cross with intricate knotwork carved in relief on the south-east face of the cross head. The cross has a tapering shaft that rises from a moulded plinth on a two-stepped base.
On the south-east face of the cross shaft, there is an inscription in lead lettering that reads: ‘TO THE / GLORY OF GOD / AND IN MEMORY OF THE / WALSALL WOOD MEN / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR / HONOUR AND FREEDOM / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918 / ‘GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN / THAN THIS / THAT A MAN LAY DOWN / HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS’ / THEIR DEEDS WILL LIVE / FOR EVERMORE’. The names of 112 individuals who fell during the First World War are inscribed on the other three faces of the plinth, with an additional name recorded on the south-east face of the top step of the base.
Local climate
Walsall Wood War Memorial receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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