Olney War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 2018. War memorial.
Olney War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- open-forge-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Olney War Memorial, C35m North-East of the Bull Public House, Market Place, MK46 4BA
- OS grid reference
- SP 889 513
- Coordinates
- 52.1531, -0.70164
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Olney War Memorial is a Grade II-listed structure made of Derbyshire stone, located at the northern end of the Market Place, surrounded by several other Grade II-listed buildings, as well as the Grade II*-listed Gilpin House, Orchard Side, Cowper House, and Newton Museum. The memorial features a column approximately 6 meters tall, square in shape, which rises from a pedestal and a two-stepped base.
The column is decorated with wreaths carved in low relief on each face near its base, and a narrow band of laurel leaves and ribbons towards the top. The pedestal tapers down to the foot of the column. Inscriptions are incised on the faces of the pedestal and on the upper stage of the pedestal’s foot.
The main dedicatory inscription on the front (north) face of the pedestal reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN/ FROM THIS TOWN/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1919./ 'THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE'" and below it, "IN TOKEN OF SORROW FOR THEIR LOSS,/ OF PRIDE IN THEIR VALOUR./ 1939 – 1945." The names of those who served in the First World War are listed in inset panels on the other three faces, while the names from the Second World War are recorded on the upper stage of the pedestal’s foot.
Local climate
Olney 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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