Pirton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 2016. War memorial.
Pirton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- carved-postern-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Pirton War Memorial, St Mary's Church, Crab Tree Lane, SG5 3QE
- OS grid reference
- TL 147 317
- Coordinates
- 51.97219, -0.33163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pirton War Memorial was unveiled in April 1920 and designed by G Maile and Son of Euston Road, London. The memorial is approximately 3 metres tall, square in plan, and consists of a roughly-hewn granite stone obelisk on a chamfered-topped plinth, which is set above a base and a two-stepped platform. The plinth features four cast-bronze tablets; three of these list the names of 30 men who died in the First World War (1914-18), while the fourth bears the inscription ‘IN MEMORY OF / THE MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / DURING THE WAR / 1939-1945’, along with the names of six individuals who fell in the Second World War. The tablets were added after the Second World War, with the three commemorating the First World War covering the original names inscribed in the granite by stonemasons in 1920. In 2009, the Pirton War Memorial Group added new steps, stone borders, gates, and wooden fences to the memorial. It is located about 40 metres from the Church of St Mary, on the north side of the churchyard facing Crab Tree Lane.
Local climate
Pirton 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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