King's Pyon War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 2018. War memorial.
King's Pyon War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- sheer-cellar-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- King's Pyon War Memorial, Churchyard of the Church of St Mary, HR4 8PS
- OS grid reference
- SO 438 505
- Coordinates
- 52.15081, -2.82211
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Pyon War Memorial is a First World War memorial located prominently at the western boundary of the churchyard, near the Church of St Mary, which is a Grade I listed building, and the Clarke monument, which is Grade II listed.
The memorial features a funerary design with a three-stepped sandstone base and a marble plinth topped by a carved urn. The top of the plinth is decorated with a carved detail of a draped shroud, complete with tassels at each corner. Each face of the plinth has raised arch-headed tablets adorned with various motifs. The front tablet displays a garland of flowers carved along its top, and below this, there is a relief carving of a rifle. The side tablets feature roundels, one with a wreath motif and the other depicting a shovel and a possible water canister. The urn is also draped and has a carved wreath surrounding it.
This memorial honors those who lost their lives in the First World War, with inscriptions in lead letters on the faces of the plinth. The front face reads: "TO/ OUR DEAR BOYS/ WHO FELL/ 1914 – 1919/ A LOVING TOKEN/ FROM/ THE PARISHIONERS." The right and rear tablets list the names of the fallen, while the left tablet features the quote: "GREATER LOVE HATH NO/ MAN THAN THIS, THAT A/ MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE/ FOR HIS FRIENDS./ ST JOHN. XV. 13."
Local climate
King's Pyon War Memorial receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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