Freeland War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 2019. War memorial. 2 related planning applications.
Freeland War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- salt-pediment-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Freeland War Memorial, Church of St Mary the Virgin, Wroslyn Road, Witney, OX29 8AZ
- OS grid reference
- SP 414 126
- Coordinates
- 51.8114, -1.40068
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Freeland War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1919, with later inscriptions for the Second World War. It is made of Portland stone and is situated in the churchyard of the Church of St Mary, to the south-east of the church and south-west of the Lychgate. The memorial faces north-east and features a gabled Calvary cross with a carved 'INRI' scroll above a sculpture of Jesus Christ on the cross.
Lower down the shaft, there is a carved shield with the text 'IHS' in relief. The tapering octagonal shaft rises from a moulded octagonal base, which stands on a two-stepped octagonal plinth, set upon a shallow square platform. The north-east face of the base is inscribed with 'JESU/ MERCY'. The top step of the plinth has an inscription that spans the three north-east facing sides, reading 'IN LOVING AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF FREELAND WHO LAID DOWN/ THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918'. The dates '1939' and '1945' are incised on two other faces of the step. The three faces of the bottom step below the First World War inscription list the names of eight individuals who fell in that conflict, while seven additional names are incised on three other sides of the step.
Local climate
Freeland War Memorial receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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