Colwall War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 2018. War memorial.
Colwall War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- outer-arch-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Colwall War Memorial, Church of St James the Great, Memorial Garden, Old Colwall
- OS grid reference
- SO 739 422
- Coordinates
- 52.07818, -2.38175
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Colwall War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920, with later additions for the Second World War. It is made of Portland stone and is located within a memorial garden to the south-east of the Church of St James the Great, which is also listed as Grade II*.
The memorial features a three-stepped octagonal base, a pedestal, and a tapering octagonal shaft topped with a stone calvary cross that has a pitched canopy. It stands on a square concrete platform. On the east face of the shaft, the letters RIP are inscribed.
The east face of the pedestal bears the inscription: "HONOUR THE BRAVE WHO FROM THIS PARISH IN THE GREAT WAR 1914–1918 MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE FOR THEIR COUNTRY AND FOR HUMANITY." The west face contains the words: “ALL THEY HAD HOPED FOR ALL THEY HAD THEY GAVE TO SAVE MANKIND THEMSELVES THEY SCORNED TO SAVE. GRANT THEM, O LORD ETERNAL REST AND LET LIGHT PERPETUAL SHINE UPON THEM.”
The names of 49 fallen soldiers are recorded on the six other faces of the pedestal. Additionally, an inscription has been added to the upper section of the pedestal, with "1939–1945" on the east face and "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE ECCLESIASTICUS XLIV.14" on the west face. The names of 13 parishioners who died in the Second World War are inscribed on the six other faces as well.
Local climate
Colwall War Memorial receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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