Leverstock Green War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 2016. War memorial.
Leverstock Green War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- seventh-wattle-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Leverstock Green War Memorial, Corner of Leverstock Green and Church Road, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, HP3 8LH
- OS grid reference
- TL 084 065
- Coordinates
- 51.74689, -0.43019
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Leverstock Green War Memorial is a tribute to those who served in the First and Second World Wars, erected in 1921 with names from the Second World War added after 1945. It is made of carved granite and features bronze plaques.
Located on a green next to Church Road near Holy Trinity Church, the memorial consists of a flaming grenade atop the capital of an octagonal rough-hewn granite column, which has a moulded base. The grenade is made of granite, while the flame is crafted from bronze. A bronze longsword is placed on the front (southeast) face of the column, which stands on an octagonal plinth with a two-tier stepped base.
The front face of the plinth displays a bronze plaque inscribed with: "THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918/ 'THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE'/ [NAMES]." On the northwest face of the plinth, another plaque reads: "TO THE/ GLORIOUS DEAD/ 1939 – 1945/ THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE/ [NAMES]." The plinth lists 29 names of the Fallen from the First World War and nine names from the Second World War.
Local climate
Leverstock Green War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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