Michaelstow war memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 2017. War memorial.
Michaelstow war memorial
- WRENN ID
- carved-tin-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SX 080 788
- Coordinates
- 50.57788, -4.71239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Michaelstow war memorial is a granite structure erected around 1919. It is located to the left of the west entrance to the Church of St Michael, which is a Grade I listed building. The memorial features a Celtic-style wheel cross with a tapered rectangular shaft, set atop a tapered square plinth and a square base. The plinth, shaft, and cross all have incised border details.
On the west face of the plinth, there is an inset marble tablet with an inscription in black metal lettering that reads: "ERECTED BY THE PARISHIONERS IN PROUD / AND UNDYING MEMORY OF THE MEN WHO / GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN / THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918 / (NAMES) / “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS.” This inscription commemorates the three men from the parish who died during the First World War.
Additionally, there is a marble tablet on the south face of the plinth with the inscription: "ALSO IN HONOURED AND GRATEFUL / MEMORY OF THOSE WHO RETURNED / IN SAFETY." This inscription lists the names of the 18 men from the parish who served and returned, along with Beatrice Matthews, a Red Cross nurse.
Local climate
Michaelstow war memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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