Berkhamsted War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 2016. A Modern War memorial.
Berkhamsted War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- floating-stronghold-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Period
- Modern
- Address
- Berkhamsted War Memorial, Corner of High Street and Church Lane, Hertfordshire, HP4 2AX
- OS grid reference
- SP 993 077
- Coordinates
- 51.7597, -0.56224
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Berkhamsted War Memorial is a First World War memorial, with later additions for the Second World War, erected around 1920. The names of those who fell in the Second World War were added after 1945.
The memorial is carved from stone and is located immediately to the west of the south aisle of the Church of St Peter, next to Church Lane and the High Street. It stands opposite the Grade II-listed medieval church and near several 16th-century houses that are also listed as Grade II and Grade II.
The memorial features a Greek cross at the top of a tapering octagonal shaft with a moulded base. This shaft rises from a moulded octagonal plinth, which sits on a three-tier stepped octagonal base. The top tier of the base has an inscription in incised lettering that reads "TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD/ 1914-18/ NAMES." Eight stone panels are inscribed with the names of 182 individuals who died during the First World War. The plinth is inscribed with "1939-1945/ NAMES," and it includes four stone panels bearing the names of 94 individuals who fell in the Second World War.
Local climate
Berkhamsted War Memorial 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 77% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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