King's College School War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Merton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 2017. War memorial. 3 related planning applications.

King's College School War Memorial

WRENN ID
burning-brass-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Merton
Constituency
Wimbledon MP: Mr Paul Kohler (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 July 2017
Type
War memorial
Address
King's College School War Memorial, Southside, Wimbledon Common, London, SW19 4TT
OS grid reference
TQ 234 706
Coordinates
51.42123, -0.22571
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The King's College School War Memorial features a bronze sculpture of a nude male youth, who is looking upwards with his hands raised. In his left hand, he holds a laurel wreath symbolizing Victory. The sculpture is positioned on a cylindrical Grecian pedestal, which has an urn-like top adorned with carvings of dentils and acanthus leaves. The pedestal includes five panels that list the names of the Fallen in alphabetical order. At the base, there is a tablet with a relief of a laurel wreath, above which is an inscription in Greek that translates to: "Theirs is the prize of fair-garlanded death."

Local climate

King's College School 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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