Chatteris War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 2017. War memorial.
Chatteris War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- former-jade-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Chatteris War Memorial, Market Hill, PE16 6BA
- OS grid reference
- TL 394 860
- Coordinates
- 52.45462, 0.05019
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chatteris War Memorial is a Grade II listed structure and associated railings, unveiled in 1920. It was designed by W Samuel Weatherley and sculpted by Messrs. A Robinson & Son, in memory of those who fell in the First and Second World Wars.
The memorial is made of limestone and features a cross with a square-plan lantern on top of an octagonal-plan tapered pillar. It stands on a square-plan plinth and an octagonal-plan base, which is set on a two-step platform. The platform is surrounded by a semi-circular paved area, which was re-paved around 2010, and is enclosed by wrought-iron railings.
At the rear (east) of the memorial, there is a tripartite plinth wall that lists the names of 158 individuals who died in the First World War. The north and south faces of the memorial's plinth bear the names of 38 individuals who fell in the Second World War. The front (west) elevation of the plinth is inscribed with the words: ‘TO THE UNDYING MEMORY / OF THE CHATTERIS MEN / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WARS / 1914-1918 / 1939-1945’. The rear (east) elevation reads: ‘LIVE THOU FOR ENGLAND / WE FOR ENGLAND DIED’. The base has the inscription: ‘GOD GAVE THEM A GREAT THING TO DO AND THEY DID IT’, and the upper step of the platform is inscribed: ‘AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM’.
The memorial is located to the west of the Church of SS Peter and Paul, which is listed at Grade I, and is adjacent to Market Hill.
Local climate
Chatteris 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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