Elton (Cambridgeshire) Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 2015. War memorial.
Elton (Cambridgeshire) Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- stony-joist-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- TL 089 935
- Coordinates
- 52.5289, -0.39612
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Elton Memorial Cross is located in the south-east corner of the churchyard of the Grade II*-listed church of All Saints. This war memorial stands approximately 5 meters high and is made of pale grey granite. It features rope decoration in relief that runs up the sides of the square-sectioned shaft and around the wheel-head. The memorial is set on a short, tapering plinth that rests on a three-stage, stepped, octagonal base.
The inscription on the plinth reads "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF ELTON WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918." The names of the fallen soldiers are inscribed on the sides of the plinth, and there is an additional inscription at the rear commemorating one man lost in the Second World War.
Local climate
Elton (Cambridgeshire) Memorial Cross 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 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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