Shawford Down War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Winchester local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Shawford Down War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- final-steeple-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Winchester
- Constituency
- Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Shawford Down War Memorial, Hampshire, Compton and Shawford, SO21 2BY
- OS grid reference
- SU 470 249
- Coordinates
- 51.0217, -1.33071
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shawford Down War Memorial is made of Portland stone and features a double-headed Latin cross with four arms, allowing it to be seen from all directions. The cross stands on a square plinth.
The plinth has an inscription that reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF ALL THE MEN OF THE EMPIRE AND ESPECIALLY OF THOSE FROM THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1919 THEY SOUGHT THE GLORY OF THEIR COUNTRY, THEY SEE THE GLORY OF GOD." The names of the fallen are incised on the other sides of the plinth.
The plinth is placed on a two-stepped base, with an inscription on the top step dedicated to the fallen of the Second World War, which states: "RE-DEDICATED TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHOSE NAMES ARE ENGRAVED ON THIS STEP WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 – 1945 THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE." The names of the fallen from the Second World War are also incised on the other faces of this step.
Local climate
Shawford Down War Memorial receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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