Gedney Dyke War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Holland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 2016. War memorial.
Gedney Dyke War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- silver-corridor-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Holland
- Constituency
- South Holland and The Deepings MP: Sir John Hayes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Gedney Dyke War Memorial, Junction of Main Street and Memorial Lane, Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE12 0AJ
- OS grid reference
- TF 411 260
- Coordinates
- 52.81342, 0.09312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gedney Dyke War Memorial is a First World War memorial designed by Charles Warrick and was unveiled on 4 April 1920. It is made of polished Aberdeen granite and features a roughly 2.8-meter high obelisk set on a square three-stage plinth, which rests on a single-stepped base.
On the south face of the plinth, there is an inscription in incised black letters that reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED/ BY THE INHABITANTS OF/ GEDNEY DYKE AND FRIENDS/ IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF/ THE MEN OF THIS VILLAGE/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR/ THEIR KING AND COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918/ GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN/ THIS, THAT A MAN SHOULD LAY DOWN/ HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY."
The west and east faces of the memorial are inscribed with the names of those who lost their lives in the First World War, while the north face includes the name of one individual who fell in the Second World War, along with the dates 1939 – 1945.
Local climate
Gedney Dyke War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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