Haslingfield War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 2015. War memorial. 7 related planning applications.
Haslingfield War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- dark-cellar-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Haslingfield War Memorial, All Saints Church, Church Street, CB23 1JF
- OS grid reference
- TL 403 521
- Coordinates
- 52.14988, 0.05042
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Haslingfield War Memorial is located in the churchyard, north of the Grade I-listed Church of All Saints. It stands 3.5 meters tall and features a simple wheel head cross with round bosses at the center and on the ends of the cross arms. This cross rises from a square-sectioned shaft, which is set on a tapered plinth, resting on a two-stepped square base.
At the base of the shaft, there is a dedicatory inscription, while the names of the fallen are inscribed on the sides of the plinth. The south face reads: "SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE HASLINGFIELD MEN WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919 (18 NAMES) 'THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE.'"
On the upper step of the base, the south face has an inscription that states: "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS." The lower step reads: "THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY THE PARISHIONERS OF HASLINGFIELD."
The west face commemorates the Second World War with the inscription "1939 - 1945 (9 NAMES) THEY ARE IN PEACE." The east face honors a soldier from the Iraq conflict with the inscription "IRAQ 2003 (1 NAME) 'LAY ME WHERE YOU WILL BUT REMEMBER ME BEFORE THE ALTAR OF GOD.'"
The memorial is surrounded by a narrow gravel path, enclosed by a chain suspended from four low concrete posts.
Local climate
Haslingfield 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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