Tywardreath Highway War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 2018. War memorial.

Tywardreath Highway War Memorial

WRENN ID
open-merlon-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 April 2018
Type
War memorial
Address
Tywardreath Highway War Memorial, A390, Par, Tywardreath and Par, PL24 2RW
OS grid reference
SX 075 554
Coordinates
50.36703, -4.7074
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Tywardreath Highway War Memorial is a war memorial erected around 1920. It is located within a small, paved enclosure alongside the road between St Blazey and Lostwithiel (A390). The memorial features a granite obelisk set on a tall, narrow plinth made of polished stone, which has a chamfered top. This plinth stands on a square, two-stepped stone base. The front (north-west) face of the plinth is inscribed in black lettering with the following text: "THE HIGHWAY & NEIGHBOURHOOD/ WAR MEMORIAL./ THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY FREE-/ WILL OFFERINGS TO PERPETUATE THE/ NAMES, HERE RECORDED, OF THE MEN/ WHO SERVED DURING THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF THOSE THAT/ PAID THE SUPREME SACRIFICE/ (NAMES)/ “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN/ THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS/ LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.”/ “AND THANKS BE TO OUR GOD WHO/ GIVETH US THE VICTORY.” The other three faces of the memorial list the names of the men from the community who returned from the conflict.

Local climate

Tywardreath Highway War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 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 87% 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 0.2°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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