Swavesey War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 2016. War memorial.
Swavesey War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- plain-window-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Swavesey War Memorial, St Andrew's Churchyard
- OS grid reference
- TL 362 693
- Coordinates
- 52.3051, -0.00268
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Swavesey War Memorial is a First World War memorial, erected around 1920, with later additions to honor those who fell in the Second World War and the Falklands Conflict. It is made of granite and has a square plan.
Located at the south-west entrance of the churchyard of the parish church of St Andrew, which is a Grade I listed building, the memorial takes the form of a Latin cross. It features a single-step base, a square plinth, and a tall shaft that rises in a rectangular section to a plain cross head.
On the north-east face of the plinth, there is an inscription dedicated to the First World War, which reads: "IN LOVING AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF / THE FOLLOWING MEN OF THIS PARISH / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR / THEIR KING AND COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919 / [names] / I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE." The south-west face bears later 20th-century dedications, stating: "IN LOVING AND GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH / WHO FELL IN THE WORLD WAR/ 1939 - 1945/ [names] / THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE / THE FALKLANDS 1982 / [name]."
Local climate
Swavesey 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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