Wimbledon Common (King's Royal Rifle Corps) War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Merton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 2017. Memorial.
Wimbledon Common (King's Royal Rifle Corps) War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- patient-tracery-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merton
- Constituency
- Wimbledon MP: Mr Paul Kohler (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 2017
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Wimbledon Common (King's Royal Rifle Corps) War Memorial, London, SW19 4UR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 226 717
- Coordinates
- 51.43156, -0.23669
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wimbledon Common War Memorial, dedicated to the King's Royal Rifle Corps, is a short stone pillar topped with a slightly pyramidal shape, standing on a square platform. The front features a brass plaque displaying the regimental badge of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, which is designed as a Maltese cross with a crown, along with a list of the various campaigns the Corps participated in. On the back of the memorial, there is a plaque inscribed with the words: "TO THE MEMORY OF ALL RANKS / OF THE RESERVE BATTALIONS OF / THE KINGS ROYAL RIFLE CORPS / WHO TRAINED HERE AND / AFTERWARD GAVE THEIR LIVES / FOR KING AND COUNTRY / 1916 - 1918."
Local climate
Wimbledon Common (King's Royal Rifle Corps) 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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