War Memorial at Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 September 2001. Monument.

War Memorial at Christ Church

WRENN ID
quiet-quartz-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
12 September 2001
Type
Monument
Address
War Memorial at Christ Church, Prestatyn
OS grid reference
SJ 067 827
Coordinates
53.33375, -3.40251
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The War Memorial at Christ Church is an octagonal monument made of oolitic limestone, designed in a late Gothic style and consisting of three stages. The lowest stage features bronze plaques that commemorate those who fell in the Great War, along with additional plaques for the names of the fallen in the Second World War. The second stage is slightly smaller and includes blind tabernacles beneath crocketted ogee arches, with a band of two quatrefoils in each bay at the base. One of the tabernacles has a trefoil head and contains a statue of a soldier from the Great War with arms reversed. The top stage is further reduced and has eight openings with crocketted ogee-headed arches, separated by buttresses that are supported by small flying-buttresses leading to the finials of the lower buttresses. There are gargoyles at both the top and bottom of this stage, along with additional quatrefoil sinkings in between. The top finials are also crocketted.

The base of the memorial consists of four steps made of local limestone, leading up to a paved platform.

Local climate

War Memorial at Christ Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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