War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Barnet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 2004. War memorial.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- tenth-stronghold-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnet
- Constituency
- Hendon MP: David Pinto-Duschinsky (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 2004
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, the Ridgeway
- OS grid reference
- TQ 224 928
- Coordinates
- 51.62091, -0.23262
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial, designed by Frank E Whiting, was built in 1920 and is located on The Ridgeway in Mill Hill. It is made of Portland stone and features bronze embellishments. The memorial has a symmetrical, battered pylon with an enriched raised panel on each face, topped with a bronze wreath. The roadside panel includes an inset bronze sword, and the entire structure is surmounted by a bronze urn.
The pylon is set on a tall base above a shallow plinth, which displays a roadside bronze panel inscribed with the names of those who fell in World War I, along with the inscription: "In proud and thankful remembrance of men from Mill Hill, who died that the nations might henceforth live in freedom, righteousness and peace. They were a wall unto us both by night and by day." The reverse side features a bronze panel commemorating the fallen of World War II.
The memorial was unveiled on 14th November 1920, and its design was judged and approved by the notable architect Gilbert Scott. It is a distinguished example of a neoclassical memorial with impressive bronze details.
Local climate
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 98% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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