Old Bolingbroke War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 April 2017. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Old Bolingbroke War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- strange-transept-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 April 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Old Bolingbroke War Memorial, Horncastle Hill, Junction of Hagnaby Road and Moat Lane, Lincolnshire, PE23 4HJ
- OS grid reference
- TF 348 651
- Coordinates
- 53.16653, 0.01559
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bolingbroke War Memorial is a First World War memorial erected in 1920, designed by Ernest Browning of Messrs Browning and Sons of Spilsby. It is carved in limestone and stands on a small village green at the junction of three roads, surrounded by grass and encircled by stone posts linked with a chain.
The memorial features a 4.3-meter high Latin cross made of Portland stone, designed in the style of the Cross of Sacrifice, with a crusader sword carved on the southern face. It has a three-stepped octagonal base topped by a two-tiered octagonal plinth. The cross-shaft is four-sided and tapers slightly.
Inscribed with black incised lettering on all eight sides of the plinth and on the base of the cross-shaft on the southern face, the memorial bears the inscription: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF OLD BOLINGBROKE / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE / GREAT WAR / 1914-1918" on the cross-base. The names of the fallen, along with their regiments, are inscribed on the upper tier of the plinth, while the lower tier features a verse of scripture that reads anti-clockwise around the memorial: "GREATER LOVE" (south face), "HATH NO MAN" (south-east), "THAN THIS" (east), "THAT A MAN" (north-east), "LAY DOWN" (north), "HIS LIFE" (north-west), "FOR HIS" (west), "FRIENDS" (south-west). Additionally, the names of two men who died in the Second World War are inscribed on the southern face, along with the date ‘1939-1945’.
Local climate
Old Bolingbroke 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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