Bardon Hill War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 2017. War memorial.
Bardon Hill War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- hollow-pewter-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SK 449 125
- Coordinates
- 52.70877, -1.33567
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bardon Hill War Memorial is a war memorial unveiled in 1920, dedicated to those who fell in the First and Second World Wars. It features a tall Portland stone wheel-cross, which displays the Sword of Sacrifice on its front (west) side. This cross is supported by a square plinth with chamfered corners, and each side of the plinth has inscribed slate plaques. The cross and plinth sit on a square base made of local Bardon granite, with each of the four sides slightly angled.
On the front (west) side of the plinth, the inscription reads: ‘TO THE GLORY OF / GOD AND IN / MEMORY OF THE / MEN OF THIS / PARISH WHO GAVE / THEIR LIVES FOR / THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1919’. The base bears the inscription: ‘THEIR NAME LIVETH / FOR EVERMORE’. The names of 31 individuals who died in the First World War (1914-18) are inscribed on the north and south sides of the plinth. The rear side of the plinth includes the inscription: ‘THIS TABLET / PERPETUATES THE MEMORY / OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR / LIVES IN THE WORLD WAR / 1939-1945 / [ FOUR NAMES] / WE WILL REMEMBER THEM’.
The memorial is located within the churchyard of the Church of St Peter, which is also listed at Grade II, and it stands approximately 10 metres south-east of the church. The memorial is enclosed at the back by a semi-circular hedge.
Local climate
Bardon Hill 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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