Woodhouse Eaves War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 July 2019. War memorial. 2 related planning applications.
Woodhouse Eaves War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- stony-wattle-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 July 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Woodhouse Eaves War Memorial, Church Hill, Near St Paul's Church, Leicestershire, LE12 8RT
- OS grid reference
- SK 531 141
- Coordinates
- 52.72217, -1.21398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodhouse Eaves War Memorial is a First World War memorial unveiled in 1920, with later alterations following the Second World War. Constructed of Mountsorrel granite and slate, it is prominently situated on a hillside adjacent to the road at the bend in Church Hill, near to the parish church and overlooking surrounding fields. The memorial comprises a Latin cross, approximately 5 metres high, standing atop a rocky outcrop, and a lower wall, roughly 4 metres wide and 1.7 metres high, bearing inscription panels. The cross is square in section and has a rough-hewn appearance. Below the cross, the altar-like wall is composed of a three-tiered granite “frame” containing incised epitaphs and three slate panels with gilded lettering. The inscriptions list the names of those from Woodhouse Eaves who died in the Great War (1914-1919) and the Second World War (1939-1945), with the inscription "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE / IN HONOURED / MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF / WOODHOUSE EAVES / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / FOR THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE / GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919 / (NAMES) AND OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945 / (NAMES)."
Local climate
Woodhouse Eaves War Memorial 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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