East Barnet War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Barnet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 2017. War memorial.
East Barnet War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- spare-transept-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnet
- Constituency
- Chipping Barnet MP: Dan Tomlinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 April 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- East Barnet War Memorial, Junction of Church Hill Road and East Barnet Road, Greater London, EN4 8SY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 272 953
- Coordinates
- 51.64256, -0.16289
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The East Barnet War Memorial is located at the junction of Church Hill Road and East Barnet Road in East Barnet. It features a tall Celtic cross made of Cornish granite, which rises from a tapering square plinth that has a four-stepped base.
The front and rear faces of the cross and shaft are adorned with Celtic-style knot-work carvings. The plinth has inscriptions made of lead, which are pinned to the granite and painted black. The inscriptions read as follows: on the front face, "IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF / THIS VILLAGE WHO LAID DOWN / THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918 / (NAMES)"; on the right face, "1939 - 1945"; on the rear face, which includes an additional granite plaque, "THEY SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES FOR / OUR FREEDOM IN WWII 1939 - 1945 / (NAMES) / AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN / AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM."; and on the left face, "1914 - 1918." In front of the plinth is a small box section for candles, inscribed with "LEST WE / FORGET."
Local climate
East Barnet War Memorial sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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