War Memorial Set on Churchyard Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. War memorial.
War Memorial Set on Churchyard Wall
- WRENN ID
- fading-attic-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1987
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial Set on Churchyard Wall, High Street, Flamstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 078 145
- Coordinates
- 51.81956, -0.43611
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial is a cross set on the churchyard wall, dating from around 1920. It is a smaller version of the Cross of Sacrifice designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield. The memorial is made of Portland stone and is raised on a square pedestal constructed from flint and brick, which is adjacent to the churchyard wall of similar materials.
The slender, tapering stone cross stands about 2 meters high and faces north. It features a stone sword in relief on the front, with an octagonal section for the upright and cross arms that have flattened domed octagonal finials. The cross has a square base that transitions concavely to the octagonal section. The hollow chamfered square base, with chamfered angles, rests on a large inscribed plinth-block that also has chamfered angles, and there is a square stone step atop the flint pedestal.
The inscription on the north side reads: "TO/THE GLORY OF GOD/AND/IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF/THIS PARISH WHO MADE THE/SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE/GREAT WAR/1914-1918/SO HE PASSED OVER AND ALL THE/TRUMPETS SOUNDED FOR HIM ON THE/OTHER SIDE." An additional inscription for 1939-1945 is located at the back.
Local climate
War Memorial Set on Churchyard Wall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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