East Cowes War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
East Cowes War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- first-transept-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- East Cowes War Memorial, Church of St James, Church Path, PO32 6RL
- OS grid reference
- SZ 504 956
- Coordinates
- 50.75798, -1.28626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The East Cowes War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920, with additional inscriptions from the Second World War. It is made of granite and is situated in the churchyard of the Church of St James in East Cowes, facing south-east. The memorial features a granite wheel-head cross with a tapered shaft, resting on a rough-hewn granite base with sloping sides.
On the front face of the plinth, there is a recessed panel that reads: ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN/ FROM THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1919/ AND THE WORLD WAR 1939 – 1945/ GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THIS/ THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS’. The names of those who died in the First World War are inscribed on recessed panels on the sides of the plinth, while the names of those from the Second World War are inscribed on a recessed panel within a wedge-shaped stone attached to the front face of the plinth.
Local climate
East Cowes 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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