Lake War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 2019. War memorial.
Lake War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- ghost-cellar-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight East MP: Joe Robertson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Lake War Memorial, Junction of Lake Hill and the Fairway, Sandown, PO36 9EE
- OS grid reference
- SZ 590 837
- Coordinates
- 50.65021, -1.16658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lake War Memorial is a First World War memorial that includes additional inscriptions for the Second World War and the Malayan Emergency. It is made from carved Cornish granite and is located at the junction of Lake Hill and The Fairway.
The memorial features a rough-hewn granite wheel cross with a tapering shaft, which is set upon a tapering plinth and a square base. A longsword is intricately carved in raised relief on the cross, with the crossguard of the sword aligning with the junction of the cross’s shaft and crossarm.
The south face of the plinth has the inscription: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ WHO GIVETH US THE VICTORY/ AND IN MEMORY OF OUR HEROIC DEAD/ (NAMES)/ THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE." The west face states: "THE PEOPLE OF LAKE/ HAVE ERECTED THIS MEMORIAL/ IN HONOUR OF THE/ 210 LAKE MEN WHO SERVED/ THEIR COUNTRY BY LAND/ SEA AND AIR/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 -1920/ 1939 – 1945." The east face bears the inscription: "O RISEN LORD/ O SHEPHERD OF OUR DEAD/ WHOSE CROSS HAS BOUGHT THEM/ AND WHO STAFF HAS LED/ IN GLORIOUS HOPE THEIR PROUD/ AND SORROWING LAND/ COMMITS HER CHILDREN/ TO THY GRACIOUS HAND/ J.S. ARKWRIGHT."
On the north face of the plinth, a granite tablet commemorates: "TO COMMEMORATE/ THE BRAVE MEN OF LAKE/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ DURING ACTIVE SERVICE IN/ WORLD WAR II 1939 – 1945/ (NAMES)/ MALAYA 1948 – 1960/ (NAME)/ WE WILL REMEMBER THEM."
Local climate
Lake War Memorial 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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