Burnham-on-Crouch War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 2017. War memorial. 2 related planning applications.
Burnham-on-Crouch War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- graven-mullion-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Burnham-on-Crouch War Memorial, High Street, Essex, Cm0, CM0 8AG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 950 955
- Coordinates
- 51.62536, 0.81659
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Burnham-on-Crouch War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1921, with later additions for the Second World War. It is made of stone and bronze and is situated on a raised platform between the High Street and the River Crouch, near the Grade II-listed buildings at 14 and 16 High Street and The Cabin Dairy at 15-17 High Street.
The memorial features a stone obelisk that rises from a four-sided plinth on a two-stepped base. On the upper part of the north and south faces of the obelisk, there are bronze laurel wreaths. The obelisk has a moulded foot with a cavetto and carved balls at each corner, resting on a narrow square base. The plinth has a square cap and a moulded foot.
The inscription on the obelisk reads: "TO THE/ MEMORY/ OF/ THOSE FROM/ THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES/ FOR/ THEIR COUNTRY/ IN/ THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918." The names of 98 individuals are cast in bronze and displayed on plaques attached to two faces of the plinth.
After the Second World War, an additional bronze plaque was added to the plinth, which states: "TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE/ FROM THIS PARISH/ WHO LOST THEIR LIVES DURING/ THE 1939 – 1945 WAR / (28 NAMES)/ KILLED BY ENEMY ACTION/ (10 NAMES)."
The memorial is set on a three-stepped, paved platform that includes raised stone planters at the two corners facing the High Street and benches.
Local climate
Burnham-on-Crouch War Memorial receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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