Sixpenny Handley War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 2016. War memorial.
Sixpenny Handley War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- keen-cornice-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Sixpenny Handley War Memorial, B3081, Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, SP5 5SA
- OS grid reference
- ST 995 172
- Coordinates
- 50.9548, -2.00759
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sixpenny Handley War Memorial is a war memorial made of Ham Hill limestone, standing approximately 4 meters high. It is located within a grassed enclosure by the roadside in front of the Church of St Mary, which is also listed at Grade II*. The memorial is surrounded by a chain supported by low stone bollards.
It features a plain Latin cross set on an octagonal plinth, which rests on a three-stepped octagonal base. The front face of the plinth is inscribed with the words "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF 23 MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918." The names of those who died in the First World War are inscribed on the other faces of the plinth, listed below their year of death. Additionally, the names of three men who fell during the Second World War are also inscribed on the plinth, beneath the dates 1939 - 1945.
Local climate
Sixpenny Handley War Memorial receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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