St Giles' War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 2015. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
St Giles' War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- eternal-gravel-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- St Giles' War Memorial, St. Giles Churchyard, Castle Street, CB3 0AQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 446 590
- Coordinates
- 52.21094, 0.11512
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The St Giles war memorial, designed by the architectural firm Bodley and Hare, features a crucifix made of Portland stone, which is mounted on a square plinth and an octagonal two-stepped base. Located at the corner of Castle Street and Chesterton Lane, the south-west side of the cross displays a bronze figure of Christ. Each of the north-west, north-east, and south-east sides of the plinth has a cast bronze plaque that lists the names of seventy-four local men who died in the First World War (1914-18). The south-west side of the plinth includes an inscription that reads: "IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD / JESUS CHRIST THIS CROSS / IS SET UP AS A MEMORIAL / OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH / WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919 / REMEMBER THEM IN YOUR / PRAYERS AND YOUR LIVES." The memorial is situated in the churchyard of St. Giles’ Church, which is listed at Grade II*.
Local climate
St Giles' 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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