Gamlingay War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 2017. Memorial.
Gamlingay War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- stark-tracery-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 March 2017
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Gamlingay War Memorial, St Mary's Field Cemetery, Cambs, SG19 3JS
- OS grid reference
- TL 242 522
- Coordinates
- 52.15486, -0.18551
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gamlingay War Memorial is a First World War memorial that was unveiled and dedicated in 1920, with additions for the Second World War. It is made of Cornish granite and has an octagonal shape.
The memorial is located in the sensory garden at St Mary's Field Cemetery, which opened in 2016. It features a two-stepped octagonal base, with the bottom step made of concrete, topped by an octagonal plinth. A tall shaft rises from the plinth, tapering in octagonal form to a Latin cross with knops at the ends. The top of the shaft is decorated with small, blind, trefoil-headed lancets set between bands of carved oak leaves.
On the northwest face of the plinth, there is a dedicatory inscription for the First World War that reads: "THE GREAT WAR / 1914 - 1919. / TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AS A TESTIMONY OF / EFFORT NOBLY / WROUGHT / AND IN MEMORY OF / OUR FALLEN." Below this is a quotation from Homer's Iliad: "HE SERVES ME MOST WHO / SERVES HIS COUNTRY BEST." The names of 65 men who died in the First World War are inscribed on the other five faces of the plinth. Additionally, the base of the plinth is inscribed with '1939 - 1945', which includes the names of 14 men who died during the Second World War on the remaining five faces of the base.
Local climate
Gamlingay 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 98% 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 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 0.4°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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