War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Basildon local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- buried-copper-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Basildon
- Constituency
- South Basildon and East Thurrock MP: James McMurdock (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, Howard Crescent
- OS grid reference
- TQ 741 882
- Coordinates
- 51.56622, 0.5117
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial, erected in 1928, is a free-standing square stone plinth topped with a rendered stone pier and a metal alloy statue of a Greek maiden. It was commissioned by a local benefactor, though the sculptor remains unknown. This memorial honors those from the parish of Pitsea and Bowers Gifford who lost their lives in the First World War. Although it has been relocated from its original site, it remains an unusual and unaltered example of a First World War memorial.
Local climate
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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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