War Memorial Cross at St Matthew's Church, Oxhey is a Grade II listed building in the Watford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 2018. War memorial.
War Memorial Cross at St Matthew's Church, Oxhey
- WRENN ID
- final-joist-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Watford
- Constituency
- Watford MP: Matt Turmaine (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial Cross at St Matthew's Church, Oxhey, C18m North of St Matthew's Church, the Churchyard, Eastbury Road, Hertfordshire, WD19 4ST
- OS grid reference
- TQ 117 953
- Coordinates
- 51.6458, -0.38612
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial Cross is located outside St Matthew's Church, which is also a Grade II-listed building. It features a tall granite wheel-head cross that rests on a large tapering granite plinth. The front face of the rough-hewn plinth has been smoothed and displays the names of those commemorated in applied metal lettering. The inscription reads, "TO LIVE IN HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE" followed by 128 names. The cross is positioned on a small pavement beside the churchyard path.
Local climate
War Memorial Cross at St Matthew's Church, Oxhey sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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