Calverton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Gedling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 2020. War memorial.
Calverton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- lunar-step-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gedling
- Constituency
- Sherwood Forest MP: Michelle Welsh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 May 2020
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SK 616 496
- Coordinates
- 53.04097, -1.08261
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Calverton War Memorial is a First World War memorial erected around 1920, with additions for the Second World War. It is made of granite and is prominently located within Calverton Cemetery. The memorial features a smoothly worked wheel head cross that sits atop a tapering plinth, which is set on a three-step base, standing approximately 3.5 meters high. It is enclosed by a square area that has a low, smooth stone perimeter wall topped with an iron post and chain link fence.
The shaft of the memorial bears the inscription "PRO PATRIA," while the rest of the text is engraved on marble panels on all four sides of the plinth and on the first step of one side. The inscription reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF CALVERTON,/ WHO IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1918/ LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES/ FOR KING AND COUNTRY." The names of the fallen are listed on the remaining three faces.
On the riser of the top step, there is an additional inscription: "ALSO THOSE WHO FELL IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945 (NAMES)."
Local climate
Calverton 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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