Eakring War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 2019. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Eakring War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- inner-plaster-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Sherwood Forest MP: Michelle Welsh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Eakring War Memorial, Church of St Andrew, Church Lane, Nottinghamshire, NG22 0DA
- OS grid reference
- SK 675 621
- Coordinates
- 53.15245, -0.99185
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Eakring War Memorial is a First World War memorial that was unveiled and dedicated in 1919. It is made of granite and is prominently located on a large, sloping bank at the entrance to St Andrew's Church, which is listed as Grade II*, situated about 15 meters to the north-west of the church's north porch.
Standing approximately 2.5 meters high, the memorial features a Celtic wheel-head cross atop a shaft that tapers in rectangular section from a roughly-hewn trapezoidal plinth. The west (front) face of the wheel-head is adorned with interlaced ornamentation in low relief, while the polished cross shaft has three blind panels also raised in low relief. The plinth has polished, recessed panels on the north, south, and west sides that display lead inscriptions. The principal dedicatory inscription on the west face reads: 'ERECTED IN TOKEN OF / GRATITUDE TO GOD / FOR VICTORY AND TO THE / HONOUR OF THE MEN OF / EAKRING WHO SERVED / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918', along with the names of the 12 men who died. The north face lists the names of five men who were wounded and eight men who served, while the south face contains the names of an additional 27 men who served.
Local climate
Eakring War Memorial sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% 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 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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