Grimston War Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 2018. War memorial.
Grimston War Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- plain-frieze-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Grimston War Memorial Cross, C85m West of St John's Church, Main Street, Leicestershire, LE14 3BZ
- OS grid reference
- SK 684 218
- Coordinates
- 52.79, -0.98622
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Grimston War Memorial Cross is located in a memorial enclosure on the south side of Main Street, about 85 meters west of the Church of St John the Baptist, which is listed at Grade II*. There are several other Grade II-listed buildings nearby. The memorial features a cross made of Portland stone, standing approximately 2 meters tall. It has a wheel-head design with a short cross shaft that rests on a pedestal. The pedestal is octagonal in shape and supports a small tapering block that is square on the bottom, from which the cross rises. The pedestal is set on a two-stepped base.
A principal dedicatory inscription is displayed on a plate attached to the front face of the central block, which reads: "GRIMSTON WAR MEMORIAL/ (8 NAMES)/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918."
Local climate
Grimston War Memorial Cross 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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