Woburn War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 May 2004. War memorial.
Woburn War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- scarred-wattle-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 May 2004
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SP 949 331
- Coordinates
- 51.98858, -0.61883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woburn War Memorial is a war memorial built in 1920. The plinth was designed by Frederick Mills, and the cross was made by J.P. White & Sons. The land for the memorial was provided on a 1,000-year lease by the 11th Duke of Bedford, who also contributed to the cost of the cross. The memorial is constructed from Portland stone and features a bronze sword. It has an octagonal plinth with a step and three diminishing tiers, topped by a cross of octagonal section.
The north-western face of the cross has a bronze sword attached to its head and shaft. The top tier of the plinth is inscribed in Gothic script with "For God/King and/Country." The middle tier lists the names of those who died in both world wars in Latin script, along with the inscription "IN MEMORY OF/THE MEN OF THE/PARISH OF WOBURN/WHO GAVE THEIR/LIVES FIGHTING FOR/THEIR COUNTRY/AND FOR THEIR/HOMES IN THE GREAT/WAR OF 1914-1918." The lowest tier bears the inscription "GREATER LOVE/HATH NO MAN/THAN THIS THAT/A MAN LAY DOWN/HIS LIFE FOR HIS/FRIENDS ST JOHN XV 13."
The cross is situated in a grassed and gravelled area. This memorial is a typical example of its kind from this period and forms a group with the Town Hall in the Market Place.
Local climate
Woburn War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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