War Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 July 2001. War memorial.

War Memorial Cross

WRENN ID
crumbling-flint-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff North MP: Anna McMorrin (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 July 2001
Type
War memorial
Address
War Memorial Cross, Cathays Cemetery, Heath
OS grid reference
ST 182 790
Coordinates
51.5044, -3.17928
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The War Memorial Cross is made of Portland stone and features a tapering shaft with chamfered angles and raised flat ends on its arms and head. The front of the cross displays a sword, likely made of bronze. It stands on a high octagonal base, which is set on a larger octagonal plinth that has an overhanging capping. The memorial is surrounded by paving, also in an octagonal shape. The base includes an inscription on three sides that reads, "This cross of sacrifice is one in design and intention with those which have been set up in France and Belgium and other places throughout the world where our dead of the Great War are laid to rest." It concludes with the phrase, "Their name liveth for evermore."

Local climate

War Memorial Cross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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