Fordham War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1984. War memorial.
Fordham War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- ruined-ashlar-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1984
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Fordham War Memorial, Carter Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 630 708
- Coordinates
- 52.31148, 0.39058
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fordham War Memorial is a structure featuring a Doric column made of Portland stone. Originally, it was topped with a bronze statue of St George by Sir George Frampton RA, but since the 1990s, it has been replaced by a fibreglass version created by Robert Donaldson. The column stands on a two-stage square plinth, which is set on a two-stage square base, making the overall height of the memorial 6 meters.
Inscriptions on the upper stage of the plinth include "OUR GLORIOUS DEAD" on the south side, "MCMXIV" (1914) on the west side, and "MCMXIX" (1919) on the east side. The names of those who fell in both wars are engraved on all four sides of the lower plinth.
Local climate
Fordham War Memorial sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% 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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