Shillington War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 2019. Memorial.
Shillington War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- tenth-cobalt-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 2019
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Shillington War Memorial, Memorial Garden Adjacent to Village Hall, High Road, SG5 3LL
- OS grid reference
- TL 127 341
- Coordinates
- 51.99423, -0.35943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Shillington War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1922, with later additions for the Second World War. It is made of Portland stone and is situated in the Memorial Garden on High Road, next to the village hall.
The memorial features a wheel-head Celtic cross with a central boss and relief-carved knot work on the head, which is mounted on a tapering shaft that rises from a plinth on a square base. The names and inscriptions are displayed in recessed panels on three sides of the plinth, with the lettering painted in black.
The west face of the plinth has the inscription: "IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF SHILLINGTON/ WHO FOUGHT AND DIED FOR/ THEIR KING AND COUNTRY/ DURING THE GREAT WARS/ 1914 – 1918/ 1939 – 1945," followed by the names of the fallen from the Second World War. The north and south faces of the plinth list the names of those who fell in the First World War. Additionally, an inclined stone block with one name from the Second World War is positioned against the west side of the base of the memorial.
Local climate
Shillington War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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