Kidlington and Hamlets War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 2016. Memorial.
Kidlington and Hamlets War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- silver-pilaster-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 2016
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Kidlington and Hamlets War Memorial, Churchyard of the Church St Mary the Virgin, Oxfordshire, OX5 2BA
- OS grid reference
- SP 496 147
- Coordinates
- 51.82938, -1.28033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kidlington and Hamlets War Memorial is a limestone structure featuring a wheel-head cross adorned with Celtic-style knot work carved in shallow relief, which sits atop a tapering shaft. This shaft is mounted on a square tapering plinth that bears dedications in lead lettering on the south face. The inscription reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE IMMORTAL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF KIDLINGTON AND ITS HAMLETS WHO NOBLY FOUGHT AND FELL IN THE GREAT WARS 1914 – 18 and 1939 – 45." Below this, the words "LEST WE FORGET" are carved in relief.
The east and west sides of the plinth list 40 names, while the northern side includes 21 names from the Second World War, one name from the Malayan crisis, and one from the Falklands War. The plinth is set on a three-stepped square base.
Local climate
Kidlington and Hamlets War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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