Girton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 2015. War memorial.
Girton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- graven-barrel-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Girton War Memorial, St Andrew's Church, Cambridge Road, Cambridge, CB3 0PN
- OS grid reference
- TL 423 622
- Coordinates
- 52.24037, 0.08362
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Girton War Memorial, made of Portland stone, was unveiled in 1919. It has a square plan and features a tapered obelisk on a pedimented plinth, with a stepped base enclosed by a low wrought-iron rail. The memorial is surrounded by a single course of cast-concrete paving slabs. The east side of the plinth and base has an inscription that honors the men of Girton who lost their lives during the First World War from 1914 to 1918, expressing gratitude for their sacrifice and bravery. The south and north sides each list ten names of those who fell in the First World War. The west side commemorates those who died in the Second World War from 1939 to 1945, with eleven names inscribed. The monument is located on the east side of the Cambridge Road in Girton village, south of the Church of St Andrew, which is listed as Grade II*.
Local climate
Girton 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% 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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