Sutton Courtenay War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 2017. War memorial.
Sutton Courtenay War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- weathered-pier-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Sutton Courtenay War Memorial, The Green, Abingdon, OX14 4AE
- OS grid reference
- SU 504 941
- Coordinates
- 51.64428, -1.27253
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sutton Courtenay War Memorial is a war memorial built in 1920, designed by Colonel H.E. Morgan Lindsay and constructed by Henry Cooper. It is made of box-ground Bath stone with a cross made from Forest of Dean stone. The memorial has a square plan and is located on a paved area on the Green to the west of the Church of All Saints.
The structure features a tapering square obelisk topped with a cross and includes moulded detailing. Each side of the shaft has an indented panel that displays commemorative inscriptions. The eastern face commemorates the Great War from 1914 to 1918, listing the names and regiments of 25 fallen soldiers, along with the names of six men who were missing in action, with one name updated to reflect his death in Mesopotamia. A dedication to the Second World War is also included at the bottom, stating: "AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED IN THE WAR OF / 1939 1945 / AND LATER CONFLICTS."
The western face lists the names of those who "SERVED OVERSEAS," the southern face records those who "SERVED AT HOME," and the northern face honors those who were "WOUNDED."
Local climate
Sutton Courtenay 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 79% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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