Claygate War Memorial, Surrey is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 2015. War memorial.

Claygate War Memorial, Surrey

WRENN ID
leaning-step-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Elmbridge
Constituency
Esher and Walton MP: Monica Harding (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 June 2015
Type
War memorial
Address
Claygate War Memorial, Surrey, Church Road, KT10 0JP
OS grid reference
TQ 157 635
Coordinates
51.35912, -0.33928
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Claygate War Memorial is located in a small memorial garden to the north of the Church of Holy Trinity, facing Church Street. It features a stone fleur-de-lys cross on an octagonal, tapering shaft that stands approximately 5 meters high. The center of the cross has a carved quatrefoil, and there are four Gothic style arches marking the transition from the cross to the shaft, each containing a blind trefoil. The shaft has a moulded foot that rests on an octagonal plinth.

The names of those who died are incised and painted on four sides of the plinth, which has protruding rectangular alcoves. The other four sides of the plinth are designed with bell-shaped concaves, leading to a general dedication in raised Gothic style lettering at the base. The inscription reads: "TO THE MEMORY/ OF THE MEN/ OF THIS VILLAGE/ WHO FELL IN/ THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR/ EVERMORE." The plinth is set on a two-stepped octagonal base.

The memorial garden is bordered by hedges on three sides and a railing along the pavement. In front of the memorial, there is a plaque that commemorates its restoration, which took place from 1952 to 2012, to mark the Diamond Jubilee of the accession of HM Queen Elizabeth II and the centenary of the outbreak of World War I in 1914.

Local climate

Claygate War Memorial, Surrey sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% 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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