War Memorial at the Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 January 2016. War memorial. 3 related planning applications.
War Memorial at the Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- long-corner-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 January 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial at the Church of St Michael, St Michael's Church, Camden Road, London, NW1 9LQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 289 839
- Coordinates
- 51.53996, -0.14155
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial at the Church of St Michael is a First World War memorial erected in 1920, designed by Clement William Jewitt. It is carved from Lancaster Freestone and stands in the churchyard of St Michael’s Church, located immediately south-west of the church and adjacent to Camden Road.
The memorial features a crucifix atop a foliage capital on a tapering octagonal shaft that is approximately 4 meters high and has a moulded base. The top arm of the cross is adorned with an elaborately carved canopy. The shaft includes an inscription from the Jesus Prayer: JESU MERCY. It rests on an octagonal pedestal that is 0.8 meters high, which in turn sits on a two-tiered octagonal base that is 0.7 meters high.
Around the base of the shaft is the inscription: GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS. The pedestal features eight panels that list 100 names of the Fallen, along with additional names on the base. The upper tier of the base bears the inscription: ‘1914 FOR ENGLAND 1919’.
Local climate
War Memorial at the Church of St Michael sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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