War Memorial (At Junction with Church Lane) is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. War memorial.
War Memorial (At Junction with Church Lane)
- WRENN ID
- outer-keep-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial (At Junction with Church Lane), High Street, Sawston
- OS grid reference
- TL 486 492
- Coordinates
- 52.12141, 0.17
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial, located at the junction of High Street and Church Lane in Sawston, is a medieval cross that was repaired in 1880 and modified in 1919 to serve as the village war memorial. It features a chamfered and mitred shaft made of Barnack limestone, set on a weathered octagonal base that transitions to a square shape. The 19th-century head is complemented by a granite plinth that lists the names of those who died in the First World War (1914-1918), the Second World War (1939-1945), and the Korean War (1950-1953). The memorial remains in its original location at the market-cross.
Local climate
War Memorial (At Junction with Church Lane) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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