Silvertown War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Newham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1999. War memorial. 2 related planning applications.
Silvertown War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- moated-string-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newham
- Constituency
- West Ham and Beckton MP: James Asser (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1999
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Silvertown War Memorial, Royal Wharf, North Woolwich Road, Silverton, E16 2BG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 408 798
- Coordinates
- 51.49998, 0.02783
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Silvertown War Memorial is a war memorial built around 1920, made of limestone. It features a square section entactic pier composed of four stones, standing on a circular plinth. The base has an ogee section, and the top displays a laurel wreath on each face, each set in a segmental-headed field above a reeded base.
The inscriptions on the memorial include the following: on the east face, it honors the memory of the men from the works who fell in the Great War from 1914 to 1919, listing seven names. The north face is blank. The west face commemorates those who died while serving their country by making TNT, specifically referencing the explosion in the works on January 19th, 1917, with 18 names listed. The south face remembers those who fell in the Second World War from 1939 to 1945, with seven names engraved. Notably, the west face commemorates the 73 individuals killed in the Silvertown TNT factory explosion of 1917, which was caused by a fire that reached the explosives store.
The memorial was relocated to its current site in 2016.
Local climate
Silvertown War Memorial 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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