Bonchurch War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 2019. War memorial.
Bonchurch War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-step-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight East MP: Joe Robertson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Bonchurch War Memorial, St Boniface Church, Bonchurch Shute, Ventnor, PO38 1RG
- OS grid reference
- SZ 576 781
- Coordinates
- 50.60001, -1.18636
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bonchurch War Memorial is a First World War memorial, built in 1920 and designed by Herbert Bryant. It is located on the east side of the churchyard of St Boniface, near the entrance gates. The memorial takes the form of a Celtic cross and has additional inscriptions related to the Second World War.
Constructed from granite with lead lettering, the memorial features a rough-hewn granite wheel cross that has a Sword of Sacrifice carved in relief on its front face. This cross rises from a similarly rough-hewn tapered plinth that sits on a square base. A recessed panel on the front of the plinth displays the inscription in sans-serif lettering: ‘TO THE MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF BONCHURCH/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919’, along with the names of the fallen listed below. The side of the plinth includes the additional inscription, ‘1939-45’, followed by the names of those lost during the Second World War.
Local climate
Bonchurch 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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