Orcop War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 2017. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Orcop War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- fading-sentry-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Orcop War Memorial, Junction of Pontrilas Road with Garway Road, HR2 8SE
- OS grid reference
- SO 474 267
- Coordinates
- 51.93646, -2.76562
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orcop War Memorial is situated at the junction of Pontrilas Road and Garway Road on a green area. It features a stone Latin cross with fleur de lys ends and a carved collar, which stands atop a tapering octagonal shaft. This shaft rises from a square pedestal placed on a two-stepped square base.
The front face of the plinth is incised with the words "IN MEMORY OF/ ORCOP PARISHIONERS/ WHO FELL IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1919/ LIVE THOU FOR ENGLAND/ AS WE FOR ENGLAND DIED." Additionally, two other faces are inscribed with the names of the fallen.
Local climate
Orcop War Memorial receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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