Wainfleet St Mary War Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 2017. War memorial.
Wainfleet St Mary War Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-quoin-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Wainfleet St Mary War Memorial Cross, The Churchyard, St Mary's Church, Church Lane, PE24 4JT
- OS grid reference
- TF 471 586
- Coordinates
- 53.10443, 0.1967
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wainfleet St Mary War Memorial Cross is located in the churchyard to the south-east of the Church of St Mary and faces west. This memorial, standing at 4.3 meters high, is a stone Calvary cross designed in the style of a traditional Lincolnshire wayside cross.
It features a broad two-stepped base that is square in plan, supporting a square plinth topped with a small octagonal pedestal. The cross-shaft is octagonal in section and is crowned with a carved hooded crucifix, displaying the figure of Christ on the western face of the cross-head.
Inscribed in incised lettering around the foot of the pedestal are the words (on the west face) IN/ THANKFUL REMEMBRANCE, (on the south face) OF THE MEN OF THIS, (on the north face) PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR, (on the west face) LIVES FOR FREEDOM IN THE, (on the south face) GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918.
On the plinth, the names of those who died in the First World War are recorded in applied metal lettering on a stone plaque set into the western face. Below this, on the top step of the base, the inscription REST ETERNAL GRANT THEM O LORD is incised. Additionally, on the southern face, a second plaque with applied metal lettering lists the names of those who died during the Second World War, framed by the inscription ALSO/ 1939-1945/ R.I.P.
Local climate
Wainfleet St Mary War Memorial Cross receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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