Grade II* listed war memorials in England

There are 137 Grade II* listed war memorials in England, out of over 4,000 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 below 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
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
Stockton-on-Tees War Memorial 1139979 Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham First World War Henry Vaughan Lanchester Sculptures on plinth 1923 19 January 1951
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
Beaumont College war memorial 1119797 Old Windsor, Berkshire First World War Sir Giles Gilbert Scott Altar and sculpture 1920 26 June 1998
Stalybridge War Memorial 1163074 Stalybridge, Greater Manchester First World War Ferdinand Victor Blundstone Sculpture group 1920 6 February 1986
Bridgwater War Memorial 1197395 Bridgwater, Somerset First World War John Angel Sculpture 1924 16 December 1974
79th Regiment Memorial 1205759 Clifton, Bristol Seven Years' War (1756–1763) Unknown Cenotaph 1766 8 January 1959
Northumberland Fusiliers Gateway, Hexham 1281571 Hexham, Northumberland First World War Arch Late 17th/early 18th century 2 October 1951
South African War Memorial, York 1257874 York, North Yorkshire Second Boer War George Frederick Bodley Cross 1905 1 July 1968
Boer War Memorial Arch, Brompton Barracks 1375606 Brompton, Kent Second Boer War Ingress Bell Memorial arch 1902 8 July 1998
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, Clifton College 1282343 Bristol Second Boer War Alfred Drury Sculpture on plinth 1904 4 March 1977
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
Devon County War Memorial and Processional Way 1393228 Exeter, Devon First and Second World Wars Sir Edwin Lutyens Cross 1921 16 April 2009
Folkestone War Memorial 1393854 Folkestone, Kent First and Second World Wars Ferdinand Victor Blundstone Sculpture 1922 24 June 2010
24th East Surrey Division War Memorial 1391503 Battersea Park, London Borough of Wandsworth First World War Eric Kennington Sculpture 1924 24 August 2005
Cross at Church of All Saints, East Pennard 1345215 East Pennard, Somerset First World War Unknown Cross Fifteenth century, restored 1919 2 June 1961
South African War Memorial, Worcester 1389731 Worcester, Worcestershire Second Boer War William Robert Colton Sculpture 1908 19 August 1999
Memorial at Holy Trinity Church, Wavertree 1393740 Wavertree, Liverpool First World War George Herbert Tyson Smith Cross 1920 7 February 2001
British Medical Association War Memorial 1378969 British Medical Association House, Tavistock Square, London Borough of Camden Second World War James Woodford Sculpture 1954 15 April 1998
War memorial at All Saints' Church, Wigan 1384562 Wigan, Greater Manchester First and Second World Wars Sir Giles Gilbert Scott Eleanor cross 1921 24 October 1951
Saltburn War Memorial 1387499 Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire First World War Sir William Reynolds-Stephens Cross 1919 26 May 1999
Memorial to the Engine Room Heroes 1209973 Liverpool, Merseyside First World War Sir William Goscombe John Obelisk 1916 14 March 1975
Commonwealth Air Forces Memorial 1376599 Runnymede, Surrey Second World War Sir Edward Maufe Memorial building 1953 25 September 1998
Crimean War Memorial Arch, Brompton Barracks 1375607 Brompton, Kent Crimean War Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt Memorial arch 1856 8 July 1998
Midland Railway War Memorial 1228742 Derby, Derbyshire First World War Sir Edwin Lutyens Cenotaph and screen wall 1921 24 February 1977
Southport War Memorial 1379604 Southport, Merseyside First and Second World Wars Grayson and Barnish Obelisk and colonnades 1923 15 November 1972
South African War Memorial, Haymarket, Newcastle 1024847 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear Second Boer War Thomas Eyre Macklin Sculpture 1907 12 November 1965
Bolton Cenotaph 1388289 Bolton, Greater Manchester First and Second World Wars Arthur John Hope Cenotaph and sculptures 1928 30 April 1999
Trumpington War Memorial 1245571 Trumpington, Cambridgeshire First World War Eric Gill Cross 1921 12 February 1999
Manchester Cenotaph 1270697 St Peter's Square, Manchester, Greater Manchester First and Second World Wars Sir Edwin Lutyens Cenotaph 1924 3 September 1974
Earl Haig Memorial 1066109 Whitehall, City of Westminster, London First World War Alfred Hardiman Statue 1936 5 February 1970
Dover Patrol Monument 1070067 Dover, Kent First World War Sir Aston Webb Obelisk 1921 22 August 1966
Civil Service Rifles War Memorial 1237096 Somerset House, City of Westminster, London First World War Sir Edwin Lutyens Column 1924 1 December 1987
Reigate and Redhill War Memorial 1242942 Redhill, Surrey First World War Richard Reginald Goulden Bronze sculpture 1923 18 March 2011
Holy Island War Memorial 1042308 Lindisfarne, Northumberland First and Second World Wars Sir Edwin Lutyens Cross 1922 15 May 1986
British Thomson-Houston Company War Memorial 1392027 Rugby, Warwickshire First and Second World Wars Sir Edwin Lutyens Cross 1921 13 June 2007
Faversham Munitions Explosion Memorial 1261010 Faversham, Kent First World War Grave, cross and stone 1917 27 September 1989
La Délivrance 1286880 Finchley, London Borough of Barnet First World War Émile Guillaume Bronze sculpture 1927 7 April 1983
War memorial in War Memorial Park, Coventry 1410358 Coventry, West Midlands First World War Thomas Francis Tickner Tower 1927 8 January 2013
Oswaldtwistle War Memorial 1206103 Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire First and Second World Wars Louis Frederick Roslyn Cenotaph and statues 1922 9 March 1984
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regimental War Memorial 1114178 Kempston, Bedfordshire First and Second World Wars George Allen Temple and obelisks 1921 17 May 1984
Stourbridge War Memorial 1116647 Stourbridge, West Midlands First World War Ernest W Pickford Cenotaph and sculpture 1923 30 October 1939
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry War Memorial 1298217 Bodmin, Cornwall First World War Leonard Stanford Merrifield Sculpture 1924 7 January 1994
Upper North Street School Memorial 1065215 Poplar, London Borough of Tower Hamlets First World War A R Adams (company) Traditional funerary sculpture 1917 27 September 1973
Blackpool War Memorial 1072010 Blackpool, Lancashire First and Second World Wars Ernest Prestwich Obelisk 1923 20 October 1923
Westfield War Memorial Village memorial 1195055 Lancaster, Lancashire First and Second World Wars Jennie Delahunt Bronze Statue 1926 13 March 1995
Keighley War Memorial 1313949 Keighley, West Yorkshire First World War Henry Charles Fehr Bronze sculpture 1924 4 December 1986
Ashton-under-Lyne War Memorial 1067996 Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester First World War Percy Howard Cenotaph 1922 14 July 1987
Burwash War Memorial 1376156 Burwash, East Sussex First World War Sir Charles Nicholson Cenotaph 1920 25 August 1998
London and North Western Railway War Memorial 1342044 Euston railway station, London Borough of Camden First and Second World Wars Reginald Wynn Owen Obelisk 1921 11 January 1999
Macclesfield War Memorial 1220798 Macclesfield, Cheshire First World War John Millard Pillar and Bronze sculpture 1921 17 March 1977
Birkenhead War Memorial 1218058 Birkenhead, Merseyside First World War Lionel Bailey Budden Cenotaph 1925 28 March 1974
Kingston upon Thames War Memorial 1080054 Kingston, London Borough of Kingston upon Thames First and Second World Wars Richard Reginald Goulden Pedestal with sculpture 1923 6 October 1983
Darwen War Memorial 1072435 Darwen, Lancashire First World War Louis Frederick Roslyn Cenotaph 1921 27 September 1984
Hythe War Memorial 1430450 Hythe, Kent First and Second World Wars Gilbert Bayes Sculpture 1921 4 December 2015
Lytham St Anne's War Memorial 1196391 Lytham St Annes, Lancashire First World War Thomas Smith Tait Cenotaph with sculpture 1923 15 February 1993
Harrow School War Memorial Building 1358630 Harrow, London First World War Sir Herbert Baker Memorial building 1926 9 July 1968
Shropshire War Memorial 1270484 Shrewsbury, Shropshire First and Second World Wars George Hubbard Rotunda and statue 1922 17 November 1995
Lichfield War Memorial 1187733 Lichfield, Staffordshire First World War Charles Bateman Sculpture 1920 5 February 1952
Ditchling War Memorial 1438295 Ditchling, East Sussex First World War Eric Gill Column 1919 12 October 2016
Newcastle and District War Memorial 1115605 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear First World War James Thoburn Cackett and Robert Burns Dick Sculpture 1923 12 November 1965
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
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
Bournemouth War Memorial 1418017 Bournemouth, Dorset First and Second world Wars Albert Edward Shervey 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
Royal Berkshire Regiment Cenotaph 1321912 Reading, Berkshire First and Second World Wars Sir Edwin Lutyens Cenotaph 1921 22 December 1975
Royal Naval Division War Memorial 1392454 Horse Guards Parade, City of Westminster, London First World War Sir Edwin Lutyens Obelisk and fountain 1925 6 March 2008
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 at St Wulfram's Church, Grantham 1062502 Grantham, Lincolnshire First and Second World Wars Sir Charles Nicholson, Bt 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 Hyde Park Corner, City of Westminster, London First World War Adrian Jones Sculpture 1924 1 December 1987
Memorial Cross at St George's Church, Deal 1425375 Deal, Kent First World War Unknown Cross 1916 11 March 2015
War memorial cloisters at Sedbergh School 1384218 Sedbergh, Cumbria First and Second World Wars Sir Hubert Worthington Cloisters 1924 14 June 1984
Worksop War Memorial 1045751 Worksop, Nottinghamshire First World War A. H. Richardson Cenotaph 1925 1 April 1985
York City War Memorial 1257512 York, North Yorkshire First and Second World Wars Sir Edwin Lutyens Cross 1925 10 September 1970
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
Briantspuddle War Memorial 1171702 Briantspuddle, Dorset First World War Eric Gill Obelisk 1918 2 October 1984
Stanway War Memorial 1154209 Stanway, Gloucestershire First World War Alexander Fisher Bronze sculpture 1920 7 September 1987
Elveden War Memorial 1037610 Eriswell, Suffolk First and Second World Wars Clyde Francis Young Corinthian column 1921 7 May 1954
Accrington War Memorial 1205791 Accrington, Lancashire First World War Sir Charles Herbert Reilly Obelisk 1922 09 March 1984
Barnsley War Memorial 1151144 Barnsley, South Yorkshire First and Second World Wars William Thomas Curtis Cenotaph 1925 13 January 1986
The City and County of London Troops War Memorial 1064714 Cornhill, City of London First World War Sir Aston Webb Cenotaph 1920 5 June 1972
Boer War Memorial, Cannon Hill Park 1392586 Birmingham Second Boer War Albert Toft Sculpture 1906 14 May 2008
Portsmouth War Memorial 1104318 Portsmouth, Hampshire First World War JS Gibson Screen with plaques 1921 25 September 1972
Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry War Memorial 1245906 Gloucester, Gloucestershire First and Second World Wars Cash and Wright Cross 1922 15 December 1998
Sheffield War Memorial 1271299 Sheffield, South Yorkshire First and Second World Wars Charles Carus-Wilson Flagstaff 1925 28 June 1973
Rifle Brigade War Memorial 1288744 Grosvenor Gardens, City of Westminster, London First and Second World Wars John Tweed Sculpture 1925 14 January 1970
Rawtenstall Cenotaph 1072780 Rawtenstall, Lancashire First and Second World Wars Louis Frederick Roslyn Cenotaph 1929 30 November 1984
2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment Memorial, Eastbourne 1043677 Eastbourne, East Sussex Service from 1882 to 1902, in Malta, Egypt, India and Boer War Sir William Goscombe John Statue 1906 17 May 1971
Rowntree Park Memorial Gates 1256477 York, North Yorkshire Second World War Gates Early 18th century 24 June 1983
Royal Artillery Boer War Memorial 1273903 The Mall, City of Westminster, London Second Boer War Aston Webb and William Robert Colton Cenotaph 1910 31 October 2016
South Harting War Memorial 1438494 South Harting, West Sussex First World War Eric Gill Cross 1920 11 October 2016
Oldham War Memorial 1210137 Oldham, Greater Manchester First and Second World Wars Thomas Taylor Bronze sculpture 1923 23 January 1973
Colchester War Memorial 1391704 Colchester, Essex First World War Henry Charles Fehr Bronze sculpture 1923 7 July 2006
National Submariners' War Memorial 1079109 Victoria Embankment, City of London First World War Ryan Tenison Bronze sculpture 1922 5 June 1972
West Derby War Memorial 1389376 Prescot, Liverpool, Merseyside First World War Walter Gilbert and Louis Weingartner Bronze sculptures on pedestal 1922 15 August 2001
Blackmoor War Memorial 1174603 Blackmoor, Hampshire First World War Sir Herbert Baker and Sir Charles Wheeler Cross 1922 15 August 2001
Lenton War Memorial 1246782 Lenton, Nottingham First World War Possibly Arthur Brewill and Basil Baily Cross 1919 30 November 1995
Burnley War Memorial 1247303 Burnley, Lancashire First World War Walter Gilbert and Louis Weingartner Cenotaph 1926 19 November 1997
Burton upon Trent war memorial 1288788 Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire First World War Henry Charles Fehr Bronze statue on plinth 1922 22 June 1979
Cumberland and Westmorland War Memorial 1291971 Carlisle, Cumbria First and Second World Wars Sir Robert Lorimer Cenotaph 1927 11 April 1994
Bisham War Memorial 1117603 Bisham, Berkshire First and Second World Wars Eric Gill Calvary 1919 22 September 1987
Watford Peace Memorial 1348116 Watford, Hertfordshire First World War Mary Pownall Bromet Bronze sculptures 1928 7 January 1983
Royal Fusiliers War Memorial 1064638 High Holborn, City of London First World War Albert Toft Bronze sculpture on plinth 1922 5 June 1972
Great Dunmow War Memorial 1438524 Great Dunmow, Essex First World War Basil Oliver and George Clausen Obelisk 1921 14 October 2016
Croydon Cenotaph 1268438 Croydon, London Borough of Croydon First and Second World Wars James Burford and Paul Raphael Montford Cenotaph 1921 19 November 1973
People of Dover war memorial 1406098 Dover, Kent First World War Richard Reginald Goulden Bronze statue 1924 9 January 2012
Crompton War Memorial 1068100 Shaw and Crompton, Greater Manchester First World War Richard Reginald Goulden Bronze Statue 1923 6 October 1987
Crich Stand (Sherwood Foresters Regimental Memorial) 1072594 Crich, Derbyshire First World War Lt-Col. Brewill Tower 1923 15 October 1997
St Michael Cornhill War Memorial 1439646 St Michael, Cornhill, City of London First World War Richard Reginald Goulden Bronze statue 1920 1 December 2016
Hatfield War Memorial 1445906 Hatfield, Hertfordshire First World War Herbert Baker Cross 1921 16 May 2017
Harrogate War Memorial 1446943 Harrogate, North Yorkshire First World War Gilbert Ledward and Ernest Prestwich Cenotaph 1923 14 June 2017
Bury War Memorial 1444845 Bury, Greater Manchester First World War Sir Reginald Blomfield Cross of Sacrifice 1924 7 April 2017
King's Royal Rifle Corps War Memorial, Winchester 1447365 Winchester, Hampshire First World War John Tweed Bronze sculpture 1920 27 July 2017
Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Winchester War Memorial 1445852 Winchester, Hampshire First World War Herbert Baker Cross 1921 16 May 2017
County of Kent War Memorial Cross 1446080 Canterbury, Kent First World War Herbert Baker Cross 1921 16 May 2017
Edgar Mobbs War Memorial, Northampton 1447457 Northampton First World War Alfred Turner Bronze Statue on plinth 1921 27 July 2017
Matlock Bath War Memorial 1451237 Matlock Bath, Derbyshire First World War James Beresford & Sons Cenotaph with stone sculpture 1921 12 February 2018
Twickenham War Memorial 1445040 Radnor Gardens, Twickenham, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames First World War Mortimer John Brown Bronze sculpture on plinth 1921 5 April 2017
Royal Air Force Memorial 1066171 Victoria Embankment, City of Westminster, London First and Second World Wars Sir Reginald Blomfield Bronze eagle on plinth 1923 23 March 2018
Bootle War Memorial 1283634 Bootle, Sefton, Merseyside First and Second World Wars Joseph Hermon Cawthra Bronze statues on obelisk 1922 23 March 2018
St Saviour's War Memorial 1378368 Borough High Street, London Borough of Southwark First World War Philip Lindsey Clark Bronze statue on plinth 1922 23 March 2018
Memorial to the Home of Aviation 1258069 Eastchurch, Kent First World War Sidney Loweth Screen 1955 23 March 2018
Pearl Centre War Memorial 1462803 Peterborough First and Second World Wars George Frampton Bronze statue 1919 19 March 2019
War Memorial at All Souls' Church, Blackman Lane, Leeds 1255888 Leeds, West Yorkshire First World War Calvary 1921 26 September 1963
War Memorial at Holy Trinity Church, Newcastle-under-Lyme 1196759 Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire First and Second World Wars Cross 1921 21 October 1949
War Memorial at Congress House 1113223 Great Russell Street, London Borough of Camden First and Second World Wars Jacob Epstein Sculpture 1958 29 March 1988
Polish Air Force Memorial 1088113 Western Avenue, Ruislip Second World War Mieczysław Lubelski Obelisk and screen walls 1948 30 August 2002

See also

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References

  1. ^ "The Listing and Grading of War Memorials". Historic England. July 2015. p. 2. Archived from the original on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  2. ^ "Listed Buildings". Historic England. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  3. ^ "The War Memorials Listing Project". Historic England. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  4. ^ Corke, pp. 4–9.
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