Mayfield War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 2018. War memorial.
Mayfield War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-chimney-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Sussex Weald MP: Ms Nusrat Ghani (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Mayfield War Memorial, C10m to the South of St Dunstan's Church Porch, St Dunstan's Church, High Street, East Sussex, Mayfield and Five Ashes, TN20 6AQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 586 269
- Coordinates
- 51.02047, 0.26061
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mayfield War Memorial is located between buildings on the north side of the High Street, aligned with the south porch of the Grade I-listed parish Church of St Dunstan. The memorial features a cross botonée that rises from the moulded collar of a tall, tapering octagonal shaft. The foot of the cross shaft is splayed and stands on a corniced plinth, which is also octagonal in shape. This plinth is elevated on three octagonal steps.
On the front face of the plinth, there is a crenellated bronze plaque that displays the main dedicatory inscription. This inscription, placed beneath a wreath, reads: "IN EVER-GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF MAYFIELD WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918. IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER AND AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN WE WILL NOT FORGET." The names of those commemorated are incised into the stone on the other faces of the plinth, below small bronze wreaths affixed to the top of each face. Additionally, a bronze plaque has been added to the base, which states: "AND OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945," with names inscribed on the adjacent faces.
The cross is surrounded by a pavement of crazy paving, with rubble stone retaining walls on three sides.
Local climate
Mayfield War Memorial receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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