Cambridge Gas Company War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 2015. Monument.
Cambridge Gas Company War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- carved-entrance-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 October 2015
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Cambridge Gas Company War Memorial, War Memorial at the Old Gas Works, Tesco Supermarket, Newmarket Road, Cambridgeshire, CB5 8LD
- OS grid reference
- TL 465 590
- Coordinates
- 52.21005, 0.14415
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cambridge Gas Company war memorial is a free-standing monument that was erected in 1921. It features an octagonal cupola with scalloped niches beneath a domed roof, standing on a square plinth. The upper section of the plinth is intricately carved with reliefs of festoons made of roses and leaves. On the south-east side of the plinth, there is an inscription that reads: ‘IN REMEMBRANCE OF / OUR FELLOW WORKERS / WHO FELL IN THE / GREAT WAR / 1914-1918’, which is followed by the names of eighteen individuals who lost their lives. On the north-west side, another inscription states: ‘THE EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYED / OF THE CAMBRIDGE GAS COMPANY / ERECTED THIS MONUMENT IN / REMEMBRANCE OF THEIR COMRADES / 1921’. Additionally, an inscription was added to the north-east side of the plinth around 1945, which reads: ‘ALSO / IN REMEMBRANCE OF / THOSE WHO FELL IN THE / SECOND WORLD WAR / 1939-1945’, followed by the names of six more individuals. The memorial measures approximately 1.2 metres square and about 3.5 metres tall. It is located at the north-west end of a paved court to the north of Newmarket Road. The metal screen behind the memorial and the granite and stone setts in the paved court are not included in the listing.
Local climate
Cambridge Gas Company 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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