Grade II* listed war memorials in England
There are 61 Grade II* listed war memorials in England, out of over 2,000 listed war memorials. In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a building or structure of special historical or architectural importance; listing offers the building legal protection against demolition or modification, which requires permission from the local planning authority. Listed buildings are divided into three categories—grade I, grade II*, and grade II—which reflect the relative significance of the structure and may be a factor in planning decisions. Grade I is the most significant and accounts for 2.5% of listed buildings, while grade II accounts for 92%. Grade II* is the intermediate grade accounting for the remaining 5.5%; it is reserved for "particularly important buildings of more than special interest". A war memorial listed at grade II* may be of particular artistic interest or accomplishment, of a highly unusual design, or of significant historical interest below that required for grade I. It is explicitly unnecessary for the architect or sculptor to be well known in order for a memorial to be listed at grade II*.[1][2] As part of the commemorations of the centenary of the First World War, Historic England—the government body responsible for listing in England—is running a project with the aim of significantly increasing the number of war memorials on the National Heritage List for England.[3]
This list includes only memorials that are grade II* listed buildings in their own right. Memorials which are not free-standing—such as a plaque on a church wall—or which form part of the curtilage of a listed building—such as a sculpture within a building—but do not have their own entry on the National Heritage List for England are not included.
War memorials in England take a wide variety of forms and commemorate centuries of conflicts, though memorials to conflicts and the soldiers who fought in them—rather than exclusively commemorating victorious commanders—only started to be commonplace after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, which ended the Napoleonic Wars. The aftermath of the First World War (1914–1918) produced significantly more memorials than any other single conflict; thus this list is dominated by First World War memorials, many of which were later re-dedicated or added to reflect losses from the Second World War (1939–1945). The list also features five memorials to the Second Boer War (1899–1902), to which around 1,000 memorials were built in Britain, four commissioned specifically to commemorate the Second World War, and one each to the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) and the Crimean War (1853–1856).[4]
Memorials
Name | ID | Image | Location | Conflict | Architect | Type | Inauguration date | Listing date |
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Mells War Memorial | 1058315 | Mells, Somerset | First and Second World Wars | Sir Edwin Lutyens | Miscellaneous | 1921 | 1 January 1969 | |
Merchant Seamen's Memorial | 1031597 | Tower Hill, London Borough of Tower Hamlets | Second World War | Sir Edward Maufe | Memorial garden | 1955 | 15 April 1998 | |
Radcliffe Cenotaph | 1067192 | Radcliffe, Greater Manchester | First and Second World Wars | Sydney Marsh | Cenotaph | 1922 | 10 March 1992 | |
Beaumont College war memorial | 1119797 | Beaumont College, Old Windsor, Berkshire | First World War | Sir Giles Gilbert Scott | Altar and sculpture | 1920 | 26 June 1998 | |
Hoylake and West Kirby War Memorial | 1116883 | West Kirby, Merseyside | First and Second World Wars | Charles Sargeant Jagger | Obelisk and sculptures | 1922 | 24 March 2011 | |
Bromley War Memorial | 1116976 | Bromley, London Borough of Bromley | First and Second World Wars | Sydney March | Obelisk and sculptures | 1922 | 14 December 1995 | |
Stalybridge war memorial | 1163074 | Stalybridge, Greater Manchester | First World War | Ferdinand Victor Blundstone | Sculpture group | 1920 | 6 February 1986 | |
Stockton-on-Tees War Memorial | 1139979 | Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham | First World War | Henry Vaughan Lanchester | Sculptures on plinth | 1923 | 19 January 1951 | |
79th Regiment Memorial | 1205759 | Clifton, Bristol | Seven Years' War (1756–1763) | Unknown | Cenotaph | 1766 | 8 January 1959 | |
Trumpington War Memorial | 1245571 | Trumpington, Cambridgeshire | First World War | Eric Gill | Cross | 1921 | 12 February 1999 | |
North Eastern Railway War Memorial | 1256553 | York, North Yorkshire | First and Second World Wars | Sir Edwin Lutyens | Obelisk, screen walls, and Stone of Remembrance | 1924 | 10 September 1970 | |
South African War Memorial | 1257874 | York, North Yorkshire | Second Boer War | George Frederick Bodley | Cross | 1905 | 1 July 1968 | |
South African War Memorial | 1282343 | Clifton College, Bristol | Second Boer War | Alfred Drury | Sculpture on plinth | 1904 | 4 March 1977 | |
Boer War Memorial Arch | 1375606 | Brompton, Kent | Second Boer War | Ingress Bell | Memorial arch | 1902 | 8 July 1998 | |
Saltburn war memorial | 1387499 | Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire | First World War | Sir William Reynolds-Stephens | Cross | 1919 | 26 May 1999 | |
War memorial at British Medical Association House | 1378969 | 100px | Tavistock Square, London Borough of Camden | Second World War | James Woodford | Sculpture | 1954 | 15 April 1998 |
Devon County War Memorial and Processional Way | 1393228 | Exeter, Devon | First and Second World Wars | Sir Edwin Lutyens | Cross | 1921 | 16 April 2009 | |
War memorial at All Saints Church | 1384562 | Wigan, Greater Manchester | First and Second World Wars | Sir Giles Gilbert Scott | Eleanor cross | 1921 | 24 October 1951 | |
Memorial at Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial | 1376611 | Madingley, Cambridgeshire | Second World War | Perry Dean Rogers Architects | Chapel and memorial wall | 1954 | 25 September 1998 | |
East Pennard Churchyard Cross | 1345215 | East Pennard, Somerset | First World War | Unknown | Cross | Fiteenth century, restored 1919 | 2 June 1961 | |
Midland Railway War Memorial | 1228742 | Derby, Derbyshire | First World War | Sir Edwin Lutyens | Cenotaph and screen wall | 1921 | 24 February 1977 | |
East Surrey Division Memorial | 1391503 | Battersea Park, London Borough of Wandsworth | First World War | Eric Kennington | Sculpture | 1924 | 24 August 2005 | |
South African War Memorial | 1389731 | Worcester, Worcestershire | Second Boer War | William Robert Colton | Sculpture | 1908 | 19 August 1999 | |
Southport War Memorial | 1379604 | Southport, Merseyside | First and Second World Wars | Grayson and Barnish | Obelisk and colonnades | 1923 | 15 November 1972 | |
Memorial to the Engine Room Heroes | 1209973 | Liverpool, Merseyside | First World War | Sir William Goscombe John | Obelisk | 1916 | 14 March 1975 | |
Crimean War Memorial Arch | 1375607 | Brompton Barracks, Kent | Crimean War | Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt | Memorial arch | 1856 | 8 July 1998 | |
South African War Memorial | 1024847 | Haymarket, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear | Second Boer War | Thomas Eyre Macklin | Sculpture | 1907 | 12 November 1965 | |
Commonwealth Air Forces Memorial | 1376599 | Runnymede, Surrey | Second World War | Sir Edward Maufe | Memorial building | 1953 | 25 September 1998 | |
Manchester Cenotaph | 1270697 | 100px | St Peter's Square, Manchester, Greater Manchester | First and Second World Wars | Sir Edwin Lutyens | Cenotaph | 1924 | 3 September 1974 |
War memorial cloisters at Sedburgh School | 1384218 | Sedbergh School, Sedbergh, Cumbria | First and Second World Wars | Sir Hubert Worthington | Cloisters | 1924 | 14 June 1984 | |
Dover Patrol Monument | 1070067 | Dover, Kent | First World War | Sir Aston Webb | Obelisk | 1921 | 22 August 1966 | |
The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Cenotaph | 1086395 | Maidstone, Kent | First and Second World Wars | Sir Edwin Lutyens | Cenotaph | 1921 | 2 August 1974 | |
Huddersfield war memorial | 1427679 | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire | First and Second World Wars | Sir Charles Nicholson | Cross and colonnade | 1924 | 14 October 2015 | |
British Thomson-Houston Company War Memorial | 1392027 | Rugby, Warwickshire | First and Second World Wars | Sir Edwin Lutyens | Cross | 1921 | 13 June 2007 | |
Norwich War Memorial | 1051857 | Norwich, Norfolk | First and Second World Wars | Sir Edwin Lutyens | Stone of Remembrance | 1927 | 30 September 1983 | |
Machine Gun Corps Memorial | 1226874 | Hyde Park Corner, City of Westminster, London | First World War | Francis Derwent Wood | Sculpture | 1925 | 5 February 1970 | |
Lewes High Street War Memorial | 1191738 | Lewes, East Sussex | First and Second World Wars | Vernon March | Sculpture | 1924 | 29 October 1985 | |
Busbridge War Memorial | 1044531 | Busbridge, Surrey | First and Second World Wars | Sir Edwin Lutyens | Cross | 1922 | 1 February 1991 | |
Holy Island War Memorial | 1042308 | Lindisfarne, Northumberland | First and Second World Wars | Sir Edwin Lutyens | Cross | 1922 | 15 May 1986 | |
Naval War Memorial | 1386464 | Plymouth, Devon | First World War | Sir Robert Lorimer | Obelisk | 1924 | 1 May 1975 | |
Bournemouth War Memorial | 1418017 | Bournemouth, Dorset | First and Second world Wars | WA Hoare | Memorial stone | 1922 | 12 March 2014 | |
Belgian Monument to the British Nation | 1066168 | Victoria Embankment, City of Westminster, London | First World War | Sir Reginald Blomfield | Sculpture | 1920 | 5 February 1970 | |
29th Division War Memorial | 1034880 | Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire | First World War | Robert Bridgeman and Sons | Obelisk | 1921 | 25 August 1987 | |
The Royal Berkshire Regiment Cenotaph | 1321912 | Reading, Berkshire | First and Second World Wars | Sir Edwin Lutyens | Cenotaph | 1921 | 22 December 1975 | |
Royal Naval Division Memorial | 1392454 | Horseguards Parade, City of Westminster, London | First World War | Sir Edwin Lutyens | Obelisk and fountain | 1925 | 6 March 2008 | |
LNWR War Memorial | 1342044 | Euston railway station, London Borough of Camden | First and Second World Wars | Reginald Wynn Owen | Obelisk | 1921 | 11 January 1999 | |
Southend-on-Sea War Memorial | 1322329 | Southend-on-Sea, Essex | First and Second World Wars | Sir Edwin Lutyens | Obelisk | 1921 | 23 August 1974 | |
War memorial in churchyard of St Wulfram's church | 1062502 | Grantham, Lincolnshire | First and Second World Wars | Sir Charles Nicholson, 2nd Baronet | Cross | 1920 | 20 April 1972 | |
Exeter City War Memorial | 1420669 | Northernhay Gardens, Exeter, Devon | First and Second World Wars | John Angel | Sculpture | 1923 | 8 September 2014 | |
The Cavalry Memorial | 1278118 | 100px | Hyde Park Corner, City of Westminster, London | First World War | Adrian Jones | Sculpture | 1924 | 1 December 1987 |
St George's Church Memorial Cross | 1425375 | Deal, Kent | First World War | Unknown | Cross | 1916 | 11 March 2015 | |
War Memorial in Coventry War Memorial Park | 1410358 | War Memorial Park, Coventry, West Midlands | First World War | Thomas Francis Tickner | Tower | 1927 | 8 January 2013 | |
Worksop war memorial | 1045751 | Worksop, Nottinghamshire | First World War | A. H. Richardson | Cenotaph | 1925 | 1 April 1985 | |
Civil Service Rifles War Memorial | 1237096 | Somerset House, City of Westminster, London | First World War | Sir Edwin Lutyens | Column | 1924 | 1 December 1987 | |
York City War Memorial | 1257512 | York, North Yorkshire | First and Second World Wars | Sir Edwin Lutyens | Cross | 1925 | 10 September 1970 | |
Hythe war memorial | 1430450 | Hythe, Kent | First and Second World Wars | Gilbert Bayes | Sculpture | 1921 | 4 December 2015 | |
Retford war memorial | 1392660 | Retford, Nottinghamshire | First and Second World Wars | Leonard W Barnard | Cross | 1921 | 23 July 2008 | |
Lancashire Fusiliers' War Memorial | 1250814 | Gallipoli Gardens, Bury, Greater Manchester | First World War | Sir Edwin Lutyens | Obelisk | 1922 | 2 September 1992 | |
Folkestone war memorial | 1393854 | Folkestone, Kent | First and Second World Wars | Ferdinand Victor Blundstone | Sculpture | 1922 | 24 June 2010 | |
Affpudle war memorial | 1171702 | Affpuddle, Dorset | First World War | Eric Gill | Obelisk | 1918 | 2 October 1984 | |
Bridgwater War Memorial | 1197395 | Bridgwater, Somerset | First World War | John Angel | Sculpture | 1924 | 16 December 1974 |
See also
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References
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