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	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 and Second World War	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