The Cavalry Memorial is a Grade II* listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. War memorial.
The Cavalry Memorial
- WRENN ID
- ragged-threshold-dust
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1987
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- The Cavalry Memorial, The Cavalry Memorial on North Side of Serpentine Road, West of Statue of Achilles, Hyde Park W2, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 281 800
- Coordinates
- 51.50468, -0.15526
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cavalry Memorial is a war memorial built in 1924 by Captain Adrian Jones. It features a bronze sculptural group mounted on a Portland stone pedestal, with a granite base and a screen wall.
The main feature of the memorial is an equestrian statue of a youthful St George, depicted in late-medieval armour and slightly larger than life. He holds his arm aloft with a raised sword while mounted on a powerful charger, which stands over a curled-up slain dragon with a broken lance embedded in it. The statue is set on a rectangular base, the upper part of which is also made of bronze and includes a frieze that depicts imperial cavalry, including Indian, South African, and British troops. The lower part of the base is constructed from Portland stone and bears the inscription: "ERECTED / BY THE / CAVALRY OF THE EMPIRE / IN MEMORY OF / COMRADES / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE WAR / 1914 1919 / ALSO / IN THE WAR / 1939-1945 / AND ON ACTIVE SERVICE THEREAFTER."
The statue and its plinth rest on a granite base, which is complemented by a low granite screen wall at the rear. This wall displays bronze plates listing the names of the Cavalry regiments that participated in the First World War, as well as the names of four Cavalry Field-Marshals: French, Haig, Allenby, and Robertson.
Local climate
The Cavalry Memorial 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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