St Peter's Church War Memorial, Cheltenham is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 2018. War memorial.
St Peter's Church War Memorial, Cheltenham
- WRENN ID
- rusted-spandrel-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- St Peter's Church War Memorial, Cheltenham, St Peter's Churchyard, Tewkesbury Road, Gloucestershire, GL51 9AH
- OS grid reference
- SO 938 233
- Coordinates
- 51.90875, -2.09049
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Peter's War Memorial is a First World War memorial that was erected in 1920. It is made of Cotswold limestone and bronze and is located outside to the north-east of the Church of St Peter, which was designed by SW Daukes and built between 1847 and 1848. The memorial is situated adjacent to Tewkesbury Road on the north-west side of Cheltenham town centre.
The memorial features an octagonal shaft with gablets and small pedestals at its base on intermediate elevations, culminating in a plain cross. It stands on a tall octagonal base that has a sunken panel on each side, resting on a two-step plinth surrounded by gravel. The base is supported by a plinth with a chamfered moulding, and the base for the shaft and cross includes ogee and ovolo mouldings. On the east side, a bronze wreath is positioned above a narrow cornice below the cross head. The inscription "LEST WE / FORGET / 1914-1919" is located at the base of the shaft on the east side, while the bottom of the base features the inscription "GREATER LOVE / HATH NO MAN / THAN THIS." The names of 134 men from the Parish who did not return are carved into the sunken panels on each face of the base.
Local climate
St Peter's Church War Memorial, Cheltenham receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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