Kingsclere Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Basingstoke and Deane local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 2015. War memorial.
Kingsclere Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- outer-cobalt-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Constituency
- North West Hampshire MP: Kit Malthouse (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SU 525 586
- Coordinates
- 51.32487, -1.24722
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kingsclere Memorial Cross is a war memorial located in the grounds of St Mary’s Church. It features a stone cross mounted on a 5-meter tall hexagonal stone shaft, which stands on a square plinth. The plinth has recessed panels on all sides that contain inscriptions and names, and it is elevated on three octagonal steps. Surrounding the memorial is a narrow flower bed, and there are two steps leading up to it from the pavement level on Newbury Road. The memorial is enclosed by ten posts carrying a chain on three sides.
The west panel of the plinth displays the inscription: "THESE AT THE CALL OF KING AND COUNTRY/ LEFT ALL THAT WAS DEAR TO THEM/ ENDURED HARDNESS, FACED DANGER AND/ FINALLY PASSED OUT OF THE SIGHT OF MEN/ BY THE PATH OF DUTY AND SELF SACRIFICE" followed by names. The east panel features a decorative relief of crossed swords within a wreath, with the dates 1914, 1918, 1939, and 1945 inscribed in each corner. Above this relief, incised on the base of the cross, is the inscription: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF THE BRAVE MEN OF/ KINGSCLERE/ DEAR SHALL THEIR BLOOD BE IN HIS SIGHT." Names are also inscribed on the north and south panels of the plinth.
Local climate
Kingsclere Memorial Cross receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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