Charminster War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 2015. War memorial.
Charminster War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- pale-landing-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Charminster War Memorial, Churchyard of St Mary's Church, West Hill, DT2 9RD
- OS grid reference
- SY 679 926
- Coordinates
- 50.73283, -2.45603
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Charminster War Memorial is a memorial dedicated to those who lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars. It was erected in 1920, with the names of those who fell in the Second World War added after 1945.
Constructed from Hamstone ashlar, the memorial is set on a reinforced concrete foundation and is located in the churchyard of St Mary’s Church, near the center of Charminster. It stands to the south of the Grade I listed medieval church and west of the Grade II listed early 18th-century Bridge Cottage and Charminster House.
The memorial features a tall, elongated Latin stone cross approximately 3.5 meters high, with a tapering octagonal shaft and crossarm. A longsword is carved in raised relief on the cross, with the crossguard matching the junction of the shaft and crossarm. The shaft is supported by a moulded and corniced square plinth, which sits on a three-tier stepped square base, making the total height around 1.5 meters.
On the front of the plinth, an inscription in black lettering reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF CHARMINSTER/ WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR/ AUGUST 4TH 1914 TO NOVEMBER 11TH 1918/ THIS CROSS IS ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THIS VILLAGE/ TO PERPETUATE THEIR GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE/ AND THEIR HOPE FOR THEM IN CHRIST." The other sides of the plinth are inscribed with 22 names, detailing rank, regiment, place of death, and date of death. Additionally, the top stage of the base is inscribed: "ALSO IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE WORLD WAR/ SEPTEMBER 3RD 1939 TO AUGUST 15TH 1945," with the names of nine of the Fallen listed on the other sides. The memorial is firmly set on its reinforced concrete foundation.
Local climate
Charminster War Memorial receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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