Houghton Conquest War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 2016. War memorial.
Houghton Conquest War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- long-hammer-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Houghton Conquest War Memorial, All Saints Churchyard, the Grove, Bedford
- OS grid reference
- TL 044 414
- Coordinates
- 52.06153, -0.47856
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Houghton Conquest War Memorial is a granite structure designed as a broken circular column, which stands on a simple base and rectangular plinth. The plinth rises from a single-step base, all set within a small kerbed square that has a gravel covering. At the base of the column, there is a small niche that was originally meant to hold a bronze statue of St George. Although the original statue is lost, a replacement created by the sculptor Philip Jackson was installed in 2000. The names of the fallen soldiers and their regiments are inscribed in black lettering around the sides of the plinth, with the name of a casualty from the Korean War inscribed on the plinth step.
On the eastern face of the plinth, an inscription in black lettering reads: 'TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919/ THEIR NAME LIVETH FOREVER'. The memorial records sixteen names of those who fell in the First World War, nine from the Second World War, and one from the Korean War.
Local climate
Houghton Conquest War Memorial sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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