Clavering War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 2014. War memorial.
Clavering War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- young-minaret-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 2014
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Clavering War Memorial, War Memorial in the Grounds of United Reform Church, (Now Known As the Christian Centre), Stortford Road, Claveing, Saffron Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 473 317
- Coordinates
- 51.96463, 0.14337
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clavering War Memorial is a First World War memorial erected in 1921. It is made of rough hewn grey granite blocks with a tooled finish, and it has a foundation slab of Yorkshire stone. The memorial stands in front of the east-facing former Congregational Chapel.
The memorial takes the form of a monolith resting on a plinth, approximately 2.5 meters high. The stones are arranged in a haphazard manner and heavily scored in places, topped with a triangular-shaped capstone. On the front (east side) of the memorial, there is a tall white Sicilian marble panel inlaid with the cross of sacrifice and crown of victory. The inscription on this panel reads: ‘1914-1919/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF CLAVERING/ WHO WENT FORTH TO/ THE GREAT WAR/ AND RETURNED NOT AGAIN [their names]/ THEIR NAME LIVETH/ FOR EVERMORE’. The back (west side) of the memorial features a small tablet with the inscription: ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ IN MEMORY OF/ [their names]/ WORLD WAR 1939-1945’.
Local climate
Clavering War Memorial sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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