Thorney War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 2019. War memorial. 2 related planning applications.
Thorney War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- swift-passage-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Thorney War Memorial, Church of St Helen, Main Street, Nottinghamshire, NG23 7BS
- OS grid reference
- SK 858 728
- Coordinates
- 53.24566, -0.71425
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thorney War Memorial is a First World War memorial that features gates erected around 1920. The memorial consists of a pedestrian gate located at the entrance to the footpath leading to the west door of the Church of St Helen, which is listed as Grade II*.
The memorial includes a pair of iron gates with spearhead railings and decorative scrollwork. These gates are subdivided by a horizontal band of elongated ovals, below which are twisted dog-rails. The gates have a concave top rail and a shallow panel adorned with pierced quatrefoil motifs. They also feature a dedicatory inscription that reads 'IN MEMORIAM' on the left-hand gate and '1914 - 1918' on the right-hand gate. The gates are flanked by piers made of coursed random rubble, topped with shallow pyramidal caps. Each pier contains a sandstone plaque inscribed with the names of eight fallen soldiers, four on each plaque.
Local climate
Thorney 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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