Islip (Oxfordshire) War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 2015. Memorial.
Islip (Oxfordshire) War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- graven-bastion-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 2015
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- SP 525 142
- Coordinates
- 51.82405, -1.23829
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Islip War Memorial is located at the junction of Bletchington Road and Church Close. It features a medieval-style stone cross with a wheel head on a tapering octagonal shaft. This shaft is set on a broadened octagonal base, which rests on a square plinth. The base of the plinth is chamfered and sits on three low, square steps. The plinth bears the inscription "IN MEMORY OF/ THE GLORIOUS DEAD/ WHO FELL DURING/ THE GREAT WARS/ 1914 – 1918," listing 25 names. Additionally, the chamfered base of the plinth includes the inscription "1939 – 1945," which lists seven names beneath it.
Local climate
Islip (Oxfordshire) 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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