Great Braxted and Wickham Bishops War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 2017. War memorial.
Great Braxted and Wickham Bishops War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- calm-dormer-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Great Braxted and Wickham Bishops War Memorial, Junction of Beacon Hill and Kelvedon Road, Essex, Little Braxted, CM8 3HW
- OS grid reference
- TL 849 126
- Coordinates
- 51.78231, 0.68046
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Great Braxted and Wickham Bishops War Memorial is a tall hexagonal stone pillar topped with an orb and an incised cross. It stands on a three-step hexagonal plinth, with the top two steps featuring inscriptions in black lettering. The left upper step honors the men of Great Braxted who gave their lives for King and Country, followed by a list of names on the lower step. The upper inscription on the top step commemorates Charles Oscar Wilson, a lieutenant in the 5th Battalion Essex Regiment, who was killed in action before Gaza, Palestine, on the evening of March 26th, 1917, at the age of 23. The lower inscription quotes from the Bible: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends" (John 15:13). The right front upper step honors the men of Wickham Bishops who gave their lives for King and Country, also followed by a list of names below. The right back upper step remembers the men who gave their lives in the war of 1939-1945, with names listed on the lower step.
Local climate
Great Braxted and Wickham Bishops War Memorial sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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