Silchester War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Basingstoke and Deane local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 2018. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Silchester War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-gravel-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Constituency
- North East Hampshire MP: Alex Brewer (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 March 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Silchester War Memorial, Little London Road, Hampshire, RG7 2ND
- OS grid reference
- SU 627 621
- Coordinates
- 51.35511, -1.09983
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Silchester War Memorial is a community memorial commemorating the dead of two World Wars. It stands by the roadside adjacent to the village playing fields and was erected in 1919, with alterations made after 1945.
The memorial is made of granite and features lead lettering. It takes the form of an upright pylon surrounded by a square enclosure. The stone is roughly hewn and has a square section, with a smooth central panel on its western face that displays an inscription and names in painted lead lettering. The inscription reads: "TO THE MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF SILCHESTER / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1918 / (NAMES) / “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS” / ALSO THOSE WHO FELL / IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR / 1939 – 1945 / (NAMES) / “GOD MADE TRIAL OF THEM / AND FOUND THEM WORTHY”. Below the stone is a square base, and a flagged path approaches the monument from the west.
Local climate
Silchester War Memorial receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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