Thornhaugh and Wansford War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 2015. Memorial.
Thornhaugh and Wansford War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- pale-flagstone-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 2015
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- TF 069 005
- Coordinates
- 52.59232, -0.42222
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thornhaugh and Wansford War Memorial is a First World War memorial designed by Henry Francis Traylen. It is made of local limestone and is located to the south-west of the church.
The memorial features a floriated Latin cross with a wheel, with each arm ending in a fleur de lys. It is supported by a hexagonal shaft that terminates in a hexagonal base with a roll moulding. This base stands on a square plinth that has chamfered and scrolled corners, which in turn rests on a two-stepped hexagonal base made of roughly dressed coursed stone. The west face of the plinth bears the inscription ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD WHO SAVED OUR COUNTRY IN HER TIME OF PERIL 1914-1918’, while the east face has the inscription ‘IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918’.
Local climate
Thornhaugh and Wansford 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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