War memorial to prison officers of Camp Hill Prison is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 2015. War memorial.

War memorial to prison officers of Camp Hill Prison

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Isle of Wight
Constituency
Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 April 2015
Type
War memorial
Address
War memorial to prison officers of Camp Hill Prison, H M Prison, High Road, Newport, Newport and Carisbrooke, PO30 5PB
OS grid reference
SZ 486 905
Coordinates
50.7124, -1.31214
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The War Memorial to the prison officers of Camp Hill Prison is a First World War memorial made of stone, featuring a bronze plaque. It stands two meters high and consists of an octagonal tapering obelisk topped with a ball finial, set on a moulded base that rests on a square plinth with two square steps. The south side of the plinth is adorned with a carved cross. On the west side, there is a square bronze plaque with a gadrooned edge, inscribed with the words 'TO THE MEMORY OF THE OFFICERS OF H. M. PRISON CAMP HILL WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR'. Below this inscription are the names of six prison officers.

Local climate

War memorial to prison officers of Camp Hill Prison receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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