Christchurch, Screen of War Memorial Garden Fronting St Aldates is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. War memorial.

Christchurch, Screen of War Memorial Garden Fronting St Aldates

WRENN ID
ancient-lead-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 June 1972
Type
War memorial
OS grid reference
SP 514 058
Coordinates
51.74908, -1.25652
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Screen of War Memorial Garden fronting St Aldate's in Christchurch is an early 20th-century structure. It features a stone plinth wall with wrought-iron screens that are separated by stone piers. There are two single wrought-iron gates with overthrows, along with large piers topped with vase finials and double gates that also have overthrows.

Local climate

Christchurch, Screen of War Memorial Garden Fronting St Aldates 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 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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