War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1993. War memorial.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- second-bastion-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1993
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, Yeates Road, Portland
- OS grid reference
- SY 688 730
- Coordinates
- 50.55605, -2.44145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial, located on Yeates Road in Fortuneswell, was built around 1920 and is constructed from Portland ashlar. It features a square tapered shaft that culminates in a pyramidal finish, standing on a lofty pedestal and base. The memorial is set within a gravel bed enclosed by a dwarf wall. The plinth measures approximately 2.2 meters square and has a small paved area on each face, made from rock-faced Roach stone. This stone supports a moulded pedestal that rises to about 2.8 meters.
A band of vertical flutes separates the ovolo and cavetto base of the shaft from a broad scotia and torus above the main inscription area, which is positioned just below eye level. Each face of the memorial is adorned with a wreath featuring a central blank circular face, carved between the flutes and inscriptions. Additional inscription panels are centrally placed over the rock-faced plinth. All names are inscribed in fine Roman lettering of a uniform size. The entire monument, dramatically situated at the top of the northern scarp slope, exudes a quiet and dignified character. There is no signature from a sculptor or any other artist on the memorial.
Local climate
War Memorial receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% 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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