Bourton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 2019. War memorial.
Bourton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- buried-lantern-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Bourton War Memorial, Churchyard of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Much Wenlock, TF13 6QD
- OS grid reference
- SO 597 963
- Coordinates
- 52.5637, -2.59572
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bourton War Memorial is a First World War memorial that was unveiled in 1921. It is located in the churchyard, to the north of the Church of the Holy Trinity, which is a Grade II* listed building. The memorial features a plain stone Latin cross set on a low square plinth and an octagonal base. A carved stone wreath is positioned against the front (north-west) face of the cross, and the main inscription on the plinth reads: IN HONOURED MEMORY 1914-1919.
Local climate
Bourton War Memorial receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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