The War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 November 1994. War memorial.
The War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- outer-basalt-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Alyn and Deeside MP: Sir Mark Tami (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1994
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- The War Memorial, Hawarden
- OS grid reference
- SJ 314 658
- Coordinates
- 53.18496, -3.02724
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The War Memorial, built between 1919 and 1920 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott of London, is a large sandstone obelisk topped with a gabled apex. Below the apex is an ogee-headed, moulded niche featuring a crocketted finial and decorative pilasters on either side. Inside the niche is a sculpted figure of Christ on the Cross. In front of the monument, there is a moulded base and low, coped walls. The rear wall, which flanks the obelisk, displays the names of those who fell in the Great War. The base of the obelisk is inscribed with "Gilbert G Scott ARA Architect." There are also later inset tablets that record the names of those who fell in the Second World War. The memorial is accessed by returned steps leading up to the enclosure.
Local climate
The War Memorial receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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