Wimbledon Common War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Wandsworth local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Wimbledon Common War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- odd-railing-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wandsworth
- Constituency
- Putney MP: Fleur Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Wimbledon Common War Memorial, Richardson Evans Memorial Playing Fields, London, SW15 3EH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 219 721
- Coordinates
- 51.43533, -0.24694
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wimbledon Common War Memorial is a First World War memorial designed by Madeline Agar and erected in 1921, with refurbishment completed in 2006.
Constructed from rock-faced stone, the memorial features marble inscription panels. It has an octagonal plan, consisting of a wide octagonal base divided into compartments. Six of these compartments are designed to hold plants, while the other two sides provide five steps leading up to a platform. This platform supports a narrower octagon with three steps, which features a moulded plinth with attached inscribed marble tablets. Atop this is a tall Latin cross adorned with vertical carved strips.
One marble tablet is inscribed with the words:
NATURE PROVIDES / THE BEST MONUMENT / THE PERFECTING OF / THE WORK MUST BE LEFT / TO THE GENTLE HAND / OF TIME, BUT EACH / RETURNING SPRING WILL / BRING A FRESH TRIBUTE / TO THOSE WHOM IT / IS DESIRED TO KEEP IN / EVERLASTING / REMEMBRANCE.
The opposite tablet reads:
THE LAND AROUND / 42 ACRES / IS DEDICATED / TO PUBLIC USE / IN MEMORY OF ALL / THOSE WHO HAVING / BEEN RESIDENT OR / BELONGING TO FAMILIES / RESIDENT IN THE / ADJOINING DISTRICTS / GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918.
Additionally, six other marble tablets list the names of the 115 local men who lost their lives in the First World War.
Local climate
Wimbledon Common 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 82% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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