Cross of Sacrifice is a Grade II listed building in the Hounslow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1999. War memorial.

Cross of Sacrifice

WRENN ID
old-rood-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hounslow
Constituency
Hammersmith and Chiswick MP: Andy Slaughter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 July 1999
Type
War memorial
Address
Cross of Sacrifice, Chiswick Cemetery, Corney Road
OS grid reference
TQ 213 775
Coordinates
51.48363, -0.25376
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cross of Sacrifice is a First World War memorial located in Chiswick Cemetery, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield. It is made of Portland stone and features an octagonal rusticated base that supports an octagonal dressed stone plinth. The socket stone bears the inscription: "This Cross-of-Sacrifice is one in design and intention with those which have been set up in France and Belgium and other places throughout the world where our dead of the Great War are laid to rest." Atop the plinth is an octagonal Latin cross with an attached bronze sword. To the north-east, there is a half-octagonal dwarf wall inscribed with the names of 22 casualties buried at this site.

Local climate

Cross of Sacrifice 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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