Lavendon War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 2018. Memorial.
Lavendon War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- watchful-tin-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 2018
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Lavendon War Memorial, C75m South-East of St Michael's Church, Junction of Olney Road and High Street, MK46 4EU
- OS grid reference
- SP 916 535
- Coordinates
- 52.17295, -0.66104
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lavendon War Memorial is made of Cornish granite and is located at the junction of High Street and Olney Road, near several Grade II-listed buildings and the Grade I-listed Church of St Michael. The memorial features a Celtic wheel head cross atop a tapered pedestal, which stands on two steps. The area around the memorial is paved with crazy paving and is enclosed by eight low granite pyramidal posts that hold spiked chains.
On the front (east) face of the pedestal, the main dedicatory inscription reads: "TO THE UNDYING FAME OF THESE MEN OF LAVENDON WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY 1914 - 1919 THIS MEMORIAL IS ERECTED (NAMES) 'LEST WE FORGET'." Below this, a small chamfered stone added to the lower step includes an inscription for the years 1939 – 1945 (NAMES). Additionally, there is a similar stone on the south side step that commemorates the death of a soldier in Malaya in 1953.
Local climate
Lavendon War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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