Hackney Wick Great War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 2016. War memorial. 5 related planning applications.
Hackney Wick Great War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- eternal-ledge-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Stratford and Bow MP: Uma Kumaran (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Hackney Wick Great War Memorial, Victoria Park, Cadogan Terrace, London, E9 5EE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 366 844
- Coordinates
- 51.54274, -0.03027
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hackney Wick Great War Memorial stands in the north-eastern corner of Victoria Park, a Registered Historic Park and Garden. Constructed of Cornish granite, the memorial dates to the aftermath of the First World War (1914-1919). It takes the form of a tapering obelisk set upon a square plinth, the obelisk and plinth rising from a two-stepped base. The base measures just over one metre square, and the memorial is approximately 3.5 metres in height. Iron railings, approximately one metre high and set 40 centimetres from the memorial, surround it.
The names and units of the fallen are inscribed on all four sides of the plinth and on two sides of the stepped base. One side, facing east, reads "TO THE MEMORY OF/ HACKNEY WICK MEN/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919," followed by the names of 50 men - 40 on the plinth and 10 on the base. The north side of the plinth bears the names of 55 men, with an additional eight on the base. The south side lists 54 men, with a further 54 names inscribed on the west side. In total, the memorial commemorates 221 men from Hackney Wick.
Local climate
Hackney Wick Great 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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