Pendeen War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 2018. War memorial.
Pendeen War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- western-string-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Pendeen War Memorial, Churchyard of St John the Baptist, St. Just, TR19 7SF
- OS grid reference
- SW 382 341
- Coordinates
- 50.14958, -5.66589
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pendeen War Memorial is a First World War memorial dedicated in 1920 and altered after the Second World War. It is made of granite and features a wheel-head cross on a tapering base and plinth, surrounded by stone posts and metal railings on three sides. The principal face of the shaft is inscribed with the words: ‘IN / LOVING MEMORY / OF ALL THOSE / WHO WENT FORTH / FROM THE / PARISH OF PENDEEN / AND ESPECIALLY / OF THOSE WHO / LAID DOWN THEIR / LIVES IN / THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1919 / FOR THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY / AND RIGHTEOUSNESS / "THEIR NAME LIVETH / FOR EVERMORE". Below this inscription, the names of 28 parishioners who lost their lives in the First World War are listed, including two noted as missing and a nurse. The back of the plinth bears the inscription ‘DEDICATED / BY THE / LORD BISHOP OF TRURO / JUNE 19 1920’.
After World War Two, the front railing was removed to make way for a stone slab with a simple raised shield that commemorates the eight men who fell in that conflict, marked with the heading ‘1939-1945 / IN THANKFUL REMEMBRANCE’. The granite used for the memorial was likely quarried at Carn Earnes, located on the hill adjacent to the church and its cemetery.
Local climate
Pendeen War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. 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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