Wavendon War Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 2018. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Wavendon War Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- inner-stair-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes Central MP: Emily Darlington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Wavendon War Memorial Cross, The Churchyard, Church of St Mary, Walton Road, MK17 8LW
- OS grid reference
- SP 911 371
- Coordinates
- 52.02568, -0.67235
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wavendon War Memorial Cross is made of Cornish granite and is located in the churchyard of the Church of St Mary, which is also listed at Grade II*. The cross features a rough-hewn wheel-head design with a bronze sword on the front face. It stands on a tapered pedestal, also rough-hewn, which has been elevated to allow for a block of polished granite to be placed underneath, resting on the original base step.
The main dedicatory inscription on the front face of the pedestal reads "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF (17 NAMES) WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918." Below this, a later inscription states "ALSO (8 NAMES) WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE WAR 1939 – 1945."
The memorial is surrounded by four low concrete posts that hold spiked chains.
Local climate
Wavendon War Memorial Cross 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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