War Memorial at Empingham Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
War Memorial at Empingham Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- noble-barrel-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1984
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial at Empingham Cemetery, Whitwell Road
- OS grid reference
- SK 945 086
- Coordinates
- 52.66766, -0.60292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial at Empingham Cemetery was built around 1920 and is made of stone. It features a squared moulded base on a three-stepped hexagonal plinth. The shaft is tapering and fluted, adorned with a fleuron frieze and topped with a battlemented capping. At the very top, there is a Latin cross. This memorial commemorates those who fell in the First World War, and it also includes a plaque for those who died in the Second World War. The total height of the memorial is approximately 4 meters.
Local climate
War Memorial at Empingham Cemetery sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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