Beddington and Wallington War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Sutton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 2016. War memorial.
Beddington and Wallington War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- floating-span-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sutton
- Constituency
- Carshalton and Wallington MP: Bobby Dean (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Beddington and Wallington War Memorial, Wallington Green, Acre Lane, SM6 7NX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 285 647
- Coordinates
- 51.36718, -0.15415
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Beddington and Wallington War Memorial is a notable structure made from Portland stone, featuring bronze plaques and a base constructed of blue Staffordshire engineering bricks. The memorial consists of a tapering pillar that rises from a rectangular plinth, which is set on a single-stepped base.
The carvings on the memorial are designed in the Art Deco style, with a cross depicted in low relief on the front of the pillar. This relief deepens as the pillar narrows towards the top, while the base of the pillar showcases a carved sunburst design.
Bronze plaques are set into recessed panels on the faces of the plinth, commemorating those who served in the First World War. The main dedicatory inscription on one plaque reads: "1914 – 1918/ TO THE/ GLORIOUS MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF/ BEDDINGTON/ AND/ WALLINGTON/ WHO FELL IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ THEY DIED THAT WE/ MIGHT LIVE." Three additional plaques list the names of the fallen, along with a small plaque bearing one further name.
After the Second World War, another bronze dedication plaque was added, which states: "1939 – 1945/ TO THE MEMORY/ OF THE MEN, WOMEN/ AND CHILDREN/ OF THIS BOROUGH/ WHO LOST THEIR LIVES/ IN THE SECOND/ WORLD WAR/ AND WHOSE NAMES/ ARE RECORDED IN THE/ BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE." A smaller plaque on one side of the base of the pillar also carries names.
Local climate
Beddington and Wallington 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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