Calstock Parish War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 2018. War memorial.
Calstock Parish War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- noble-arch-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Calstock Parish War Memorial, Cemetery Road, Albaston, PL18 9AH
- OS grid reference
- SX 425 705
- Coordinates
- 50.51337, -4.22247
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Calstock Parish War Memorial is a First World War memorial that was unveiled in 1921 and later altered after the Second World War and the Korean War.
It is made of Kit Hill granite and features bronze plaques. The memorial is designed as a roughly-hewn Latin cross with a tapering shaft, set on a tapering base and a square plinth. A bronze plaque is attached to each face of the base. The principal plaque on the west face is inscribed with the words: ‘THANKS BE TO GOD WHICH GIVETH US THE VICTORY / IN GLORIOUS MEMORY OF / THE MEN FROM THE PARISH OF CALSTOCK / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 -1918 / GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS / THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS’. The names of the fallen from the First World War are inscribed on plaques on the other faces.
Following the Second World War, a granite tablet was added to the top of the west side of the base, inscribed with ‘IN MEMORIAM / 1939-1945’ and the names of those who fell in that conflict. A further granite tablet was added to the east side after the Korean War, inscribed ‘IN MEMORIAM / KOREA 1950-53’ along with the name of the individual who fell during that war.
Local climate
Calstock Parish War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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