Wootton Peace Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 2017. Memorial.
Wootton Peace Memorial
- WRENN ID
- lone-oriel-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 2017
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Wootton Peace Memorial, St Mary's Churchyard, Church Street
- OS grid reference
- SP 438 198
- Coordinates
- 51.87566, -1.36393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wootton Peace Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920, located at the south-west corner of St Mary’s churchyard, overlooking Church Street. It is near the Church of St Mary, which is listed at Grade II*, School Cottages, which are listed at Grade II, and several Grade II-listed chest tombs.
The memorial is made of Somerset stone and features a square block sundial with a bronze gnomon on the south face and a Latin cross incised into the north face. The sundial has a moulded base and cap, topped with a globe, and is supported by a tapering octagonal shaft that rises from a chamfered octagonal base. This base sits on a square plinth with chamfered top corners and a moulded foot. The entire structure is placed on a three-stepped, square base made of coursed stone. Plaques are attached to the south face of the top and middle steps of the base.
At the base of the shaft, the south face features the inscription: PRO PATRIA/ 1914 – 1919. Below this, incised into the plinth, are the words: AS THE SUNNY HOURS DIRECT OUR THOUGHTS ABOVE/ SO THE LIVES OF VALIANT MEN/ LEAD US TO HIM WHO IS THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Local climate
Wootton Peace Memorial receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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