Monk Sherborne War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Basingstoke and Deane local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 2019. War memorial.
Monk Sherborne War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- pitched-rotunda-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Constituency
- North West Hampshire MP: Kit Malthouse (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SU 609 560
- Coordinates
- 51.30054, -1.12757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Monk Sherborne War Memorial is a First World War memorial that was unveiled in 1923. The designer is currently unknown, and the names of those who fell in the Second World War were added later.
Made of Portland stone, the memorial is situated on a traffic island at the junction of Salters Heath Road and Monk Sherborne Road. It features a wheel cross with Celtic knot decoration on a tapering rectangular shaft that has a moulded capital. This shaft is mounted on a tapering plinth set on an octagonal base. At the top of the shaft, a carved scroll displays the legend ‘IN MEMORIAM’ in relief. The front face of the plinth has the inscription ‘GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS’. The names of the fallen are inscribed on the shaft, listing eight names from the First World War, followed by the date 1939-1945 and four names from the Second World War.
Surrounding the memorial is a low metal fence with gilded pineapple finials on the corner posts, which was installed in 2002. However, this metal fence is not considered to have special architectural or historic interest.
Local climate
Monk Sherborne War Memorial receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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