War Memorial at Thornhill Road Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 2016. Memorial.
War Memorial at Thornhill Road Gardens
- WRENN ID
- far-lime-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 2016
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- War Memorial at Thornhill Road Gardens, Corner of Thornhill Road &Amp; Richmond Avenue, Greater London, N1 0LX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 311 839
- Coordinates
- 51.53886, -0.11023
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial at Thornhill Road Gardens is a First World War memorial erected in 1920. It is carved from granite and is located in Thornhill Road Gardens, near Richmond Avenue and Malvern Terrace, oriented northwest to southeast.
The memorial features a granite cross with a Celtic head, set upon a tapering shaft that is 1.2 meters high. Surrounding the cross are four trefoils that form a circle or aureole. The shaft rises in four set-back tiers and is topped by a tapering square plinth that is 1.1 meters high. This plinth rests on a two-tiered square base that is 0.5 meters high.
On the southeast face of the plinth, there is an inscription that reads: "THEY WHOM THIS MEMORIAL/ COMMEMORATES AND WHOSE/ NAMES ARE RECORDED ON THE/ WAR SHRINE NOW RESTING IN/ HOLY TRINITY CHURCH WERE/ NUMBERED AMONG THOSE WHO/ AT THE CALL OF KING & COUNTRY/ LEFT ALL THAT WAS DEAR TO THEM/ ENDURED HARDNESS, FACED DANGER/ AND FINALLY PASSED OUT OF SIGHT/ OF MEN BY THE PATH OF DUTY AND/ SELF-SACRIFICE GIVING UP/ THEIR OWN LIVES THAT OTHERS/ MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM/ LET THOSE THAT COME AFTER SEE TO IT/ THAT THEIR NAMES ARE NOT FORGOTTEN." The northwest face bears the inscription: "LEST/ WE/ FORGET."
Local climate
War Memorial at Thornhill Road Gardens 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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