Bourn War Memorial, Cambridgeshire is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 2015. War memorial.
Bourn War Memorial, Cambridgeshire
- WRENN ID
- tangled-flint-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Bourn War Memorial, Cambridgeshire, the Green at the Junction of High Street and Short Street, CB23 2SG
- OS grid reference
- TL 324 564
- Coordinates
- 52.19078, -0.06335
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bourn War Memorial is located on a small green at a road junction in the village of Bourn, Cambridgeshire. Made from Aberdeen granite, the memorial features a moulded wheel-head cross atop a rectangular tapered plinth and a square base. It stands 2.6 meters high and is surrounded by a square area of kerbed paving. The raised kerbs support a low leaf spear-point metal fence, with a metal chain-link suspended from metal posts at the corners and midpoints.
On the front of the plinth, the memorial is inscribed with the words "ERECTED TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THE MEN OF BOURN WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918 1939 – 1945 (1 NAME)." The rear of the plinth carries the inscription "PASS NOT THIS STONE IN SORROW BUT IN PRIDE AND MAY YOU LIVE AS NOBLY AS THEY DIED." The names of the servicemen who died during the First World War are engraved on the remaining sides of the plinth.
Local climate
Bourn War Memorial, Cambridgeshire 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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