Wolvercote War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 2017. War memorial.
Wolvercote War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- fossil-barrel-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Wolvercote War Memorial, St Peter's Churchyard, First Turn, Oxfordshire, Ox2
- OS grid reference
- SP 496 098
- Coordinates
- 51.78483, -1.28141
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wolvercote War Memorial is a First World War memorial located in the churchyard to the west of the Grade II-listed Church of St Peter, near the Grade II-listed Church Hall and Old Church House.
The memorial is made of granite and features a Celtic wheel-head cross with a tapering shaft. The east face of the cross-head and part of the shaft are decorated with a knot work design carved in relief. The shaft stands on a tapering plinth, which has a square block foot on top of a chamfered square base. All the lettering on the memorial is made with lead.
The inscription on the east face of the plinth reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF WOLVERCOTE/ WHO NOBLY GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918." The names of 53 men who died are listed on the remaining three faces of the plinth.
Local climate
Wolvercote 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings