Sewstern War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 2020. War memorial.
Sewstern War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- keen-crypt-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 2020
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Sewstern War Memorial, Junction of Main Street and Back Lane, Leicestershire, Buckminster, NG33 5RQ
- OS grid reference
- SK 885 216
- Coordinates
- 52.78508, -0.68888
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sewstern War Memorial is a war memorial erected in 1921. It is carved from granite, featuring an inscription in lead lettering. The memorial consists of a roughly-hewn tapered plinth with rounded upper corners, topped by a roughly-hewn Latin cross. The raised panel on the north-west face of the plinth bears the inscription:
IN EVERLASTING MEMORY / OF (NAMES) / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 / THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE.
The memorial is enclosed by hoop-headed wrought iron railings, which include a gate on the north-west side.
Local climate
Sewstern 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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