War Memorial at the Church of Holy Innocents is a Grade II listed building in the Croydon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 2017. War memorial.
War Memorial at the Church of Holy Innocents
- WRENN ID
- sunken-zinc-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon West MP: Sarah Jones (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial at the Church of Holy Innocents, Selhurst Road, South Norwood, London, SE25 6XX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 336 682
- Coordinates
- 51.39713, -0.0797
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial at the Church of Holy Innocents is a stone Celtic cross situated on a trapezoidal plinth, which rests on a stone base. The front of the plinth features an inscription that reads: "IN MEMORY OF OUR COMRADES / WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 / ST MARKS COY, NO. 969 / CHURCH LADS' BRIGADE / K.R.R.C. CADETS / THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVER / R.I.P." The names of the Fallen are inscribed on the right and left faces of the plinth.
Local climate
War Memorial at the Church of Holy Innocents sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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