Swinford War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 2019. War memorial.
Swinford War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- sunken-flagstone-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Swinford War Memorial, All Saint's Churchyard, Corner of High Street and Rugby Road, Leicestershire, LE17 6BN
- OS grid reference
- SP 569 794
- Coordinates
- 52.40969, -1.16399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Swinford War Memorial is a First World War memorial, built around 1920. It is made from polished pink granite and is situated in the southeast corner of All Saints Churchyard. The memorial features a wheel-head cross with a tapering shaft and a plinth that has a single-stepped base. The plinth is inscribed with incised and gilded lettering.
The main inscription reads: ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD / 1914-1918 / IN HONOURED MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO / LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR’, followed by the names of the fallen, and the phrase ‘THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE’. On the west face, there is an additional inscription ‘1939-1945’, along with two names.
Local climate
Swinford War Memorial receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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