War Memorial, Willesden Jewish Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Brent local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
War Memorial, Willesden Jewish Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- crooked-span-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brent
- Constituency
- Brent East MP: Dawn Butler (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, Willesden Jewish Cemetery, United Synagogue Cemetery, Beaconsfield Road, London, NW10 2JE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 220 846
- Coordinates
- 51.54742, -0.24182
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial at Willesden Jewish Cemetery was erected in 1961 by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, designed by R Hobday, the Commission's senior architect. It is located at the north end of the cemetery, just south of the lodge, within a grassed area.
Constructed from Portland stone, the memorial features a simplified cenotaph design with a shallow stepped section at the top and a stepped base. It stands on two steps, surrounded by a stone pavement. On the north face, there is an engraved Star of David, with the dates of the two world wars inscribed above and below. The memorial bears inscriptions in both Hebrew and English. The Hebrew inscription reads: ‘In the memory of our valiant and loyal brothers who fell in the fields and for those whose graves are unknown’. The English inscription states: ‘THIS MEMORIAL / HONOURS THOSE / OF THE JEWISH FAITH / WHO FELL / WHILE SERVING / IN THE FORCES OF / THE COMMONWEALTH / IN TWO WORLD WARS // THEIR NAME LIVETH / FOR EVERMORE’.
Local climate
War Memorial, Willesden Jewish Cemetery sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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