War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 2004. Memorial.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- brooding-granite-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 2004
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, Newland Street, Witham
- OS grid reference
- TL 823 147
- Coordinates
- 51.8021, 0.64283
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial in Braintree was designed by Sir Charles Nicholson and completed in 1920, with additional plaques added after World War II. It is made of sandstone and features a bronze plaque. The memorial consists of a central cross with a tapered shaft and a Celtic wheel behind the arms. The arched plaque depicts a mounted soldier alongside a kneeling soldier holding a flag. It is inscribed with the words: "1914-1918/TO THE HONOUR OF/THE MEN OF WITHAM/WHO UNDER THE FLAG OF FREEDOM/FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ "Their name liveth for evermore".
On either side of the memorial, low walls in a quadrant plan curve forward, inscribed with the names of the deceased. These walls end in square-section piers topped with domed caps. Additionally, there are two flat tablets that list the names of those who died in World War II, which also conclude with similar piers.
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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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