Little Brickhill War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Little Brickhill War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- worn-moulding-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes Central MP: Emily Darlington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Little Brickhill War Memorial, 5m to the West of the Church of St Mary Magdalene, the Churchyard, Woburn Road, MK17 9NA
- OS grid reference
- SP 910 324
- Coordinates
- 51.98314, -0.67617
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Little Brickhill War Memorial is a stone structure located in the churchyard of the Church of St Mary Magdalene, which is also listed at Grade II*. Positioned outside the church's west tower, the memorial takes the form of a lantern cross. It features a single-stepped octagonal base topped with an octagonal plinth that has a drumhead, reminiscent of Sir Reginald Blomfield’s Cross of Sacrifice. Atop the base is a small square pedestal that supports the cross shaft. The lantern head is a rectangular stone block with a convex top.
The front face of the lantern displays a bronze plaque depicting the Calvary in low relief, featuring figures of Mary and Thomas on either side of the crucified Christ. A bronze plaque on the front (west) face of the pedestal lists the names of ten individuals who served in the First World War, along with the years 1914 – 1918. A similar plaque on the south face of the pedestal commemorates three individuals from the Second World War, with their names listed alongside the year of death.
A dedicatory inscription carved on the drumhead of the base is largely illegible as of 2018, but it includes the words "LOVING ARMS EMBRACE ALIKE/ UPON THE CROSS THE LIVING AND/ OUTSPREAD [...]". It is believed that the original inscription may have read, "Loving arms upon the cross outspread embrace alike the living and the dead." The names of those who served in the First World War are incised around the upper part of the main section of the base.
Local climate
Little Brickhill War Memorial 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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