Harefield War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Hillingdon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 August 2015. War memorial.
Harefield War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- young-solder-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hillingdon
- Constituency
- Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner MP: David Simmonds (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 August 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- TQ 053 905
- Coordinates
- 51.60409, -0.48024
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harefield War Memorial is a war memorial designed by Frederic Herbert Mansford in 1921, with the names of those who fell in the Second World War added in 1948. In the 21st century, memorial stones for Victoria Cross recipients were also added.
Made of Portland stone, the memorial is located at the south-eastern corner of Harefield village green, overlooking the pond. It features a 10-meter high obelisk on a plinth with a two-tiered base. The north-east and south-west faces of the obelisk display the dates 1914 and 1918, respectively. Each side of the plinth is decorated with a laurel leaf swag. The north-west face of the plinth has the inscription "TO THE/ GLORIOUS/ DEAD," while the other three sides list the names of the 79 fallen. The names of the 34 who died in the Second World War are inscribed on the base of the north-west face of the obelisk.
Surrounding the memorial is a rectangular area of stone paving slabs, featuring four panels of pebble cobbles and a flight of six stone steps leading down to the pond. These steps are flanked at the top by a pair of low stone piers. To the north-west of the obelisk, the paving includes two stones engraved with the names of Victoria Cross recipients, Privates Cecil John Kinross and Robert Edward Ryder, added in 2014. These stones depict the Victoria Cross, along with the names of the regiments and the dates of the actions for which the awards were given.
Local climate
Harefield War 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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