Althorne War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 2023. War memorial.
Althorne War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- seventh-newel-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 2023
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Althorne War Memorial, Fambridge Road, Chelmsford, CM3 6BZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 906 987
- Coordinates
- 51.65521, 0.75413
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Althorne War Memorial is a First World War memorial that has names added after the Second World War. It features an oak structure with a roof covered in plain red clay tiles, located prominently on a triangular green at the junction of Main Road and Station Road.
The memorial is designed as a public shelter in the form of a lychgate, standing on a rectangular paved area and enclosed by a low chain fence. The oak structure is pegged and consists of two principal posts with diagonal braces at both the lower and upper ends. It supports a steeply sloping roof with a subtle double pitch and pierced trefoils in the gable heads.
Above the seat backs is a large bronze plaque adorned with a wreath and laurel branches in relief, flanked by the outline of a battlemented wall. Below this plaque is a carved banner with the inscription in raised lettering: "THEY WERE A WALL UNTO US/ BOTH BY DAY AND NIGHT." Surrounding the four sides of the plaque is another inscription, also in raised lettering, which reads: "ALTHORNE ALSO SENT FORTH MEN TO FIGHT THAT YE MIGHT INHERIT FREEDOM AND PEACE WITH VICTORY HONOUR THEREFORE THOSE WHO DIED UNTO THIS END 1914 - 1919." The names of the eighteen men who fell in the First World War are listed below. Additionally, a small separate bronze plaque beneath the main plaque bears the date 1939 - 1945 and the names of the two men who fell in the Second World War.
Local climate
Althorne War Memorial receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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