Langleybury War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 2016. War memorial.
Langleybury War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- outer-truss-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Three Rivers
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Langleybury War Memorial, Junction of Langleybury Lane and the A41, Hunton Bridge, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, Abbots Langley, WD4 8QQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 080 005
- Coordinates
- 51.69334, -0.43748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Langleybury War Memorial is a First World War memorial with later additions for the Second World War, erected in 1919, with the names of those who fell in the Second World War added after 1945. It is carved from granite.
The memorial is located at the junction of Langleybury Lane and the A41, next to the churchyard of the Church of St Paul. It features a granite cross with a Celtic head and a tapering shaft that rises from a trapezoidal granite plinth and a three-tier stepped base. The cross and shaft are decorated with carved interlace and knotwork.
On the southeast face of the plinth, there is an inscription that reads: "TO THE HONOURED MEMORY OF THOSE BRAVE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY AND FOR THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM AND JUSTICE IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918 'THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE' NAMES."
The northwest face of the plinth has the inscription: "THE WORLD WAR 1939 – 1945 GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS. NAMES REST ETERNAL GRANT THEM O LORD AND LET LIGHT PERPETUAL SHINE UPON THEM."
Local climate
Langleybury 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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