Fleet War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Hart local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 2018. War memorial.
Fleet War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- errant-garret-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hart
- Constituency
- North East Hampshire MP: Alex Brewer (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 July 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Fleet War Memorial, Gurkha Square, Hampshire, GU51 5BX
- OS grid reference
- SU 806 539
- Coordinates
- 51.27922, -0.84532
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fleet War Memorial is a stone memorial built in 1920, with names added after the Second World War and later in the 20th century. It is made of Portland stone and is situated in Gurkha Square, facing south-east towards a car park.
The memorial features a curved stone wall that extends on either side of a sturdy stone cross. The wall is constructed from rough-hewn, squared-stone blocks and rises higher in the center. It has rough-hewn coping and includes a low stone bench at each end. The front of the wall displays four stone tablets inscribed with the names of those who fell in service.
The cross is positioned atop a broad, tapering shaft and is designed in a geometric Celtic style. It is supported by a battered, stepped plinth, which is adorned with a fifth tablet. This tablet is carved in plain relief with the inscription ‘OUR GLORIOUS DEAD / 1914 - 1918 AND 1939 – 1945’, and below it are additional names of the fallen. At the bottom of the tablet, there is a secondary inscription that reads ‘AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN WARS AND CONFLICTS SINCE.’ In total, 155 combatants are commemorated as of 2018.
Local climate
Fleet War Memorial receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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