Harris Memorial (St Peter's Gardens) is a Grade II listed building in the Wolverhampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1992. Memorial.

Harris Memorial (St Peter's Gardens)

WRENN ID
rusted-frieze-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wolverhampton
Constituency
Wolverhampton West MP: Warinder Juss (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 March 1992
Type
Memorial
Address
Harris Memorial (St Peter's Gardens), Lichfield Street, City of Wolverhampton, WV1 1DU
OS grid reference
SO 914 987
Coordinates
52.58657, -2.12721
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Harris Memorial, located in St. Peter's Gardens on Lichfield Street in Wolverhampton, is a memorial built between 1917 and 1919. It features a bust created by R.J. Emerson and is made of ashlar stone with a bronze bust and plaques. The memorial has a battered square plinth and a stele, which includes projections on the sides with inscriptions at the tops and caps that have undulating lines. The bust represents a sailor wearing a cap band from H.M.S. Admirable. The front plaque commemorates the heroic death of Able Seaman Harris, depicting him slumped in the wireless room of the ship, while the rear plaque contains an inscription in Italian. Harris was killed in the Adriatic Sea while staying at his post in the wireless room on the damaged drifter Floandi.

Local climate

Harris Memorial (St Peter's Gardens) receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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