Pict's Cross War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 2019. War memorial.
Pict's Cross War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- far-casement-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SO 560 266
- Coordinates
- 51.93704, -2.64047
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pict's Cross War Memorial is a war memorial erected around 1920. It is constructed of granite, with incised lettering painted black for the inscriptions.
Located at the south-west corner of the crossroads at Pict’s Cross, the memorial features a large, roughly hewn cross with splayed arms that sits atop a tapered square shaft, which in turn stands on a tapered pedestal.
On the north-east face of the shaft, there is a recessed panel that bears the inscription:
FOR / GOD, KING / AND / COUNTRY / 1914 -1918
The names of the 15 men who died in the First World War are listed on a recessed panel at the dado of the pedestal. Additionally, the central section of the north-east face of the plinth has been cut away to create a sloped panel with the inscription:
1939 – 1945 / (NAMES) / - SELLACK -
The war memorial is accessed via two stone steps and is surrounded on three sides by a snecked stone wall topped with two rows of upright coping stones. The side walls slope down towards the road. On either side of the north-east face of the memorial, there are chamfered stones set at an angle.
Local climate
Pict's Cross War Memorial receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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