War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 2009. War memorial.

War Memorial

WRENN ID
dark-chalk-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peterborough
Constituency
North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 2009
Type
War memorial
Address
War Memorial, Barnack, City of Peterborough
OS grid reference
TF 074 051
Coordinates
52.6334, -0.41431
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Barnack War Memorial, made of Clipsham stone and bronze, features a stepped square base plinth topped with an octagonal cross that has a tapered shaft. The main inscription reads: "TO THE GLORY/ OF GOD AND IN/ MEMORY OF/ THE BARNACK/ MEN WHO FELL/ IN THE GREAT/ WAR 1914-1919/ JESU MERCY/ (NAMES)/ 1939-1945/ (NAMES)/ THIS CROSS WAS ERECTED BY ALFRED WEBSTER."

Alfred Webster, who lived in Barnack before moving to South Africa in the early 1900s, donated the memorial, which was dedicated by the Archdeacon of Oakham on 6th February 1921. The memorial is a poignant reminder of significant national and international events and serves as a simple yet architecturally distinct tribute to those who fell in the two world wars and the Falklands conflict.

Local climate

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 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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