War Memorial Plaque attached to 1 Bardwell Road and 22 Thorpe Road is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 2015. War memorial.

War Memorial Plaque attached to 1 Bardwell Road and 22 Thorpe Road

WRENN ID
roaming-hinge-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 June 2015
Type
War memorial
Address
War Memorial Plaque attached to 1 Bardwell Road and 22 Thorpe Road, AL1 1RG
OS grid reference
TL 148 067
Coordinates
51.74764, -0.33779
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The war memorial plaque, unveiled in 1920 by Bishop of St Albans, Dr Michael Furse, is attached to the front wall of the dwellings at 1 Bardwell Road and 22 Thorpe Road. The stone memorial consists of three rectangular tablets, each resting on a small stone bracket, with a shallow triangular hood above them. Two of the tablets are inscribed with the names of six individuals who lost their lives in the First World War, while the central tablet features a cross. The inscription on the triangular hood reads: ‘FOR REMEMBERANCE/ 1914-1918’. The left tablet lists the names: ‘THORPE/ROAD/ARTHUR CATHARD/ERNEST WALDOCK’, and the right tablet lists: ‘BARDWELL/ ROAD/SIDNEY LAUCHLAND/HARRY SKINNER/WILLIAM SKINNER/HERBERT SUTTON’.

Local climate

War Memorial Plaque attached to 1 Bardwell Road and 22 Thorpe Road sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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