Waterbeach War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 2017. War memorial.
Waterbeach War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- odd-iron-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Waterbeach War Memorial, St John's Churchyard, Station Road, CB25 9HT
- OS grid reference
- TL 497 651
- Coordinates
- 52.26383, 0.1927
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Waterbeach War Memorial is a First World War memorial erected in 1920 by W Bell and Sons of Cambridge, designed by Captain Long of Messrs’ Atkinson and Long, Cambridge. It is carved from limestone and stands in the churchyard of the Grade II*-listed St John’s Church, overlooking the Grade II-listed Hall and associated barn.
The memorial features a Latin cross atop a tall, tapering octagonal shaft, which is set on a chamfered square plinth. This plinth rests on a four-stepped octagonal base. The third step includes four additional stone steps that commemorate the Fallen of the Second World War. The north face of the cross is inscribed with "HIS," while the south face reads "PAX." The north face of the plinth bears the inscription: "IN GRATEFUL / MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF / WATERBEACH / WHO FELL IN / THE GREAT / WAR 1914 – 1919. / THEIR NAME / LIVETH FOR / EVERMORE." The additional step below is inscribed: "AND IN THE WAR / 1939 – 1945." The names of the fallen are recorded on the other faces of the memorial, arranged chronologically from west to east, with a total of 45 names inscribed—37 from the First World War and eight from the Second World War.
Local climate
Waterbeach 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 91% 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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