Hinxton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 2015. War memorial.
Hinxton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- errant-gallery-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- TL 496 451
- Coordinates
- 52.08459, 0.182
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hinxton War Memorial is a granite structure that features a 3-meter tall Celtic wheel cross on a tapered shaft, which is mounted on a chamfered square plinth resting on a narrow base step. The front face of both the cross and the shaft is dressed and recessed, with the cross displaying an interwoven Celtic knot-work design carved in relief. The front and rear faces of the shaft, the plinth, and the base step are all incised with black-painted inscriptions.
The front face of the shaft has the inscription "IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF HINXTON WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919." The front face of the plinth lists the names of the eight men who were killed in the First World War. The front face of the base carries the inscription "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOREVER." On the rear face of the plinth, the date "1939 – 1945" is inscribed, along with the names of the four men who died in the Second World War.
The memorial is surrounded by a raised stone curb, with a granite bollard at each corner. These bollards are connected by a metal rail fence, and the ground around the memorial is covered with gravel.
Local climate
Hinxton War Memorial 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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