Knipton Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 2015. War memorial.
Knipton Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- nether-rampart-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 June 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Knipton Memorial Cross, the Memorial Garden, Croxton Road, Leicestershire, Belvoir, NG32 1RJ
- OS grid reference
- SK 825 313
- Coordinates
- 52.87312, -0.77564
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Knipton Memorial Cross is a war memorial located in a small garden surrounded by a wooden fence at the southern end of the triangular green where Croxton Road meets Nursery Lane. It stands approximately 5 meters tall and features a stone wheel-head cross with floral terminals that rises from a circular column. This column is set on a square plinth, which is elevated by three square steps and a large, square, rubble-faced base.
On the front of the plinth, there is a slate tablet with the dedicatory inscription that reads: "TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN OF/ KNIPTON WHO MADE THE SUPREME/ SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ IN THANKFULNESS TO GOD FOR THE/ VICTORY THEIR VALOUR HELPED TO/ WIN AND ALSO TO COMMEMORATE/ THE PATRIOTISM OF ALL FROM THIS/ VILLAGE WHO FOUGHT FOR THEIR/ COUNTRY. THIS MONUMENT IS SET/ UP BY THOSE WHO LOVE THEM/ AND ARE PROUD OF THEM."
Additional slate tablets on the other three sides of the plinth list the names of those commemorated. A slate ledger stone at the base records the names of individuals from the Second World War.
Local climate
Knipton Memorial Cross sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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