Egloskerry village War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 2017. War memorial.
Egloskerry village War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- mired-mullion-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SX 272 866
- Coordinates
- 50.65345, -4.44517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Egloskerry village War Memorial is a village memorial unveiled in August 1921. It is made of Cornish granite with inset lead lettering and is located in the village churchyard, to the west of the Church of St Keria, which is also listed as Grade II.
The memorial features a cross with a shaft and a stepped base that rises from a platform. The cross head is designed as a Celtic wheel head, with round, cushion-shaped bosses at the arms and center, and the arms flared at their ends. The tapered shaft rises from a base consisting of three steep steps, beneath which is a platform. Surrounding the monument is a paved enclosure marked by four obelisk-shaped pillars at the corners, which are linked by chains.
The top step of the base is inscribed with the words: ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF EGLOSKERRY / WHO FELL IN THE / GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918’. The names of the fallen are listed on the step below, while the bottom step bears the inscription ‘THEY LIVE FOR EVERMORE / 1939 – 1945’, along with the names of those who fell in that conflict. A paved path connects the monument to the entrance of the churchyard.
Local climate
Egloskerry village War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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