Lower Beeding War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 2019. War memorial.
Lower Beeding War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- kindled-rampart-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Constituency
- Horsham MP: John Milne (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Lower Beeding War Memorial, Church of Holy Trinity Churchyard, Sandygate Lane, West Sessex, RH13 6LR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 220 274
- Coordinates
- 51.03315, -0.26084
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lower Beeding War Memorial is a limestone memorial cross, likely dating from the 1890s, which was later converted into a First World War memorial. It is situated to the south-east of the Grade II listed Parish Church of the Holy Trinity, within the churchyard.
The memorial features a lantern cross atop a tapering, square-section shaft that rises from a square pedestal. The pedestal is adorned with a carved quatrefoil tracery design on each face and has a splayed foot. This entire structure is set on a two-stepped octagonal base.
On the west face of the foot of the shaft, there is an inscription that reads: "THIS CROSS/ WAS USED AS A/ WAR SHRINE/ 1914 – 1919." The names of 26 individuals who fell during the First World War are recorded on the other faces of the foot of the cross shaft. Additionally, a bronze plaque is embedded in the south face of the pedestal, featuring an inscription in Old English lettering that commemorates Jane Clifford Hubbard. The inscription states: "WE PRAISE THEE O GOD/ FOR ALL THY SERVANTS WHO HAVE/ DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN THY FAITH/ & REST & SLEEP THE SLEEP OF PEACE/ ESPECIALLY FOR THY SERVANT/ JANE CLIFFORD HUBBARD/ WHO RESTS IN THIS CHURCHYARD/ WITH MANY WHOM SHE LOVED WELL/ & WHOSE NAMES (?)… HERE/ BE WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE/ ANNO D… MDCCCXCII."
Local climate
Lower Beeding War 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 greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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