Poole School Cross War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 2012. War memorial.

Poole School Cross War Memorial

WRENN ID
scattered-marble-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Constituency
Poole MP: Neil Duncan-Jordan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 February 2012
Type
War memorial
OS grid reference
SZ 008 904
Coordinates
50.71328, -1.98958
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Poole School Cross War Memorial is a granite stone structure standing 2.57 meters high. It features a tall shaft on a plinth with a two-stepped base, topped by a Celtic cross. The north face of the plinth has an inscription in black-painted lettering that reads:

FINIS OPUS CORONAT/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ THE OLD BOYS OF POOLE SCHOOL/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918

The names of the fallen are inscribed on the south, east, and west faces of the plinth.

Local climate

Poole School Cross War Memorial receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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