St Austell War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
St Austell War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- night-cobble-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SX 014 524
- Coordinates
- 50.33858, -4.79209
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The St Austell War Memorial, built around 1920, is made of granite. It features an ornately-carved Celtic cross that stands on a tapered stone plinth with a two-stepped base. The lower step has been extended forward to include a slanting stone base. The inscriptions are in black metal lettering. On the north face of the plinth, it reads:
TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND / IN SACRED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THE / ANCIENT PARISH OF ST AUSTELL / WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918
The names of 200 men who fell in the Great War are inscribed on the other sides of the plinth. The north face of the upper step has the inscription:
AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE OF THIS AREA / WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR OF / 1939-1945
The names of 144 men who fell in the Second World War are inscribed on the sloping face of the extended lower base.
Local climate
St Austell War Memorial receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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