Penn Fields, Bradmore and Merry Hill War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Wolverhampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 2018. A C20 War memorial.
Penn Fields, Bradmore and Merry Hill War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- narrow-chapel-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wolverhampton
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton West MP: Warinder Juss (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Penn Fields, Bradmore and Merry Hill War Memorial, Opposite the Church of St Philip, Church Road, City of Wolverhampton, WV3 7EJ
- OS grid reference
- SO 895 969
- Coordinates
- 52.57012, -2.155
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Penn Fields, Bradmore and Merry Hill War Memorial is a stone structure dating to around 1920. It is situated on Church Road, opposite the Church of St Phillip. The memorial features a figure of a uniformed serviceman holding his rifle at the ready, positioned on a rusticated stone pedestal. This pedestal stands on a two-stepped base within a green area.
Each face of the plinth has an inset panel with the dedication: "THIS STATUE IS ERECTED/AS A LASTING TRIBUTE/TO THE MEN OF/PENN FIELDS, BRADMORE/AND MERRY HILL/WHO SERVED/IN HIS MAJESTYS FORCES/DURING THE GREAT WAR/1914-1919/THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO PAID THE SUPREME SACRIFICE/ARE ENGRAVED HEREON/1914-1919," along with incised names. Additionally, the base bears the inscription "ERECTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS."
Local climate
Penn Fields, Bradmore and Merry Hill War Memorial receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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