Datchworth War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 2016. War memorial.
Datchworth War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- second-floor-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Datchworth War Memorial, All Saints Church, Bury Lane, SG3 6RG
- OS grid reference
- TL 267 192
- Coordinates
- 51.85737, -0.16059
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Datchworth War Memorial was erected in 1919 in the grounds of the Church of All Saints, off Bury Lane. The monument, made of Portland stone, stands approximately 3.5 metres tall and has a square base. It takes the form of a tapering obelisk set on a plinth, which is raised on a three-stepped base and platform. The obelisk features chamfered corners, and the upper part of the front side has a carved relief of a sword and a laurel wreath.
After the Second World War, uniform square marble tablets were added to the four faces of the plinth, likely covering the original inscriptions from 1919. The tablet on the front face reads: ‘IN MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF DATCHWORTH / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN TWO WORLD WARS / 1914 – 1918 / 1939 – 1945’. Two of the tablets list the names of the 13 local men who died in the First World War, while a separate plaque commemorates four men who fell in the Second World War.
Local climate
Datchworth War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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