Banbury War Memorial in The People's Park is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Banbury War Memorial in The People's Park
- WRENN ID
- slow-glass-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Banbury War Memorial in The People's Park, Oxfordshire, OX16 0AH
- OS grid reference
- SP 451 405
- Coordinates
- 52.06167, -1.34227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Banbury War Memorial is located at the intersection of footpaths in the southeastern part of Banbury People’s Park, at the center of a paved area surrounded by flower beds. This tall memorial is made of Portland stone and features a wheel-head cross on a tapering shaft. The shaft rises from a square, tapering plinth, which stands on a two-stepped octagonal base. The top of the lower step of the base has a slightly projecting shelf for placing floral tributes.
The front face of the plinth has an inscription that reads "IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE 325 MEN AND 1 WOMAN OF THE BOROUGH OF BANBURY WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES." The rear face has the inscription "LEST WE FORGET THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918." Additionally, a third face of the plinth bears the inscription "ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE 1939 – 1945 WAR." All inscriptions are incised and painted with black enamel.
The memorial is enclosed by paving and ornamental railings that form an octagonal enclosure.
Local climate
Banbury War Memorial in The People's Park sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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