Old Bletchley War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 2018. Memorial.
Old Bletchley War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- sharp-landing-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 2018
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Old Bletchley War Memorial, C130m South of St Mary's Church, Church Green Road, West Bletchley, MK3 6DJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 862 336
- Coordinates
- 51.99469, -0.74514
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bletchley War Memorial is a 4-meter tall granite structure located on the Green at the junction of Church Green Road and Rickley Lane. It is situated near the Church of St Mary, which is Grade I-listed, as well as Bletchley Rectory Cottages and Museum, which is Grade II*, and The Rectory and Rectory Stables, which are Grade II. The memorial features a rough-hewn obelisk that stands on a square pedestal, tapering back to the obelisk, which is set on a deep stepped base. The top of the obelisk is more finely finished, cut back to reveal a Greek cross in plan and dressed to define a Latin cross on all four sides.
The front (south-east) faces of both the obelisk and pedestal are more finely crafted and display the inscriptions. The names of those commemorated from the First World War are listed on the obelisk. Below, the pedestal features the principal dedicatory inscription that reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND THE ETERNAL MEMORY OF THOSE/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ TO SAVE THEIR COUNTRY/ AND PRESERVE LIBERTY, IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1918/ YE THAT LIVE ON/ MID ENGLISH PASTURES GREEN/, REMEMBER US, AND THINK/ WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN."
An inset panel on the south-west face of the obelisk lists the names of those commemorated from the Second World War, with a panel on the pedestal indicating the dates 1939 – 1945. The details of a soldier who died in Afghanistan are recorded on the north-east face of the obelisk, accompanied by a panel on the pedestal that reads "IN MEMORIAM."
Local climate
Old Bletchley 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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