War Memorial by South West Corner of Church of St Gluvias is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1994. War memorial.
War Memorial by South West Corner of Church of St Gluvias
- WRENN ID
- brooding-belfry-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1994
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial by South West Corner of Church of St Gluvias, Church Hill, Penryn
- OS grid reference
- SW 787 346
- Coordinates
- 50.17046, -5.10001
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial, located by the south-west corner of the Church of St Gluvias, was erected around 1920. It features an inscription that reads, "IN MEMORY OF MEN FROM THE PARISH OF ST GLUVIAS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR (1914-1919) THAT WE MIGHT LIVE IN PEACE." The memorial is designed in a Celtic style, with a dressed granite wheel-head cross mounted on a tapered shaft, adorned with oak leaf decoration near the top.
Local climate
War Memorial by South West Corner of Church of St Gluvias receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% 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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