Diseworth War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 2018. War memorial.
Diseworth War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- young-foundation-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Diseworth War Memorial, St Michael's Church, Clements Gate, Long Whatton and Diseworth, DE74 2QD
- OS grid reference
- SK 453 245
- Coordinates
- 52.81669, -1.32842
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Diseworth War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1921. It is made of Breedon granite and features marble tablets. The memorial is situated in the churchyard wall at St Michael's and All Angels Church, which is a Grade II* listed building, immediately to the left of the churchyard entrance.
The structure is an extension of the churchyard wall, designed as a shrine with rubble stone construction. It has a central column with a triangular pediment, flanked by lower, sloping wings. Inside the upper section of the central panel, there is a marble tablet set beneath a stone lintel, which is incised with a heraldic crest and the motto 'SOUVENT ME SOUVIENT', meaning 'often I remember' or 'think of me often'.
The main area of the memorial features a recessed marble tablet with a triangular head, decorated with an incised cross surrounded by a wreath and the dates 1914 and 1918. Below this is a dedicatory inscription that reads: 'IN PROUD MEMORY OF THE DISEWORTH MEN WHO FELL IN THE / GREAT WAR, AND HAS A THANKOFFERING TO GOD FOR THE SAFE / RETURN OF SO MANY, THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED: FOUR OF THE CHURCH / BELLS WERE RECAST AND REHUNG: A FIFTH BELL WAS ADDED'.
The lower part of the memorial includes three columns: the central column lists the names of the men who died, while the two flanking columns list the names of those who fought and returned.
Local climate
Diseworth War Memorial 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% 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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