Winterbourne Abbas War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 2015. War memorial.
Winterbourne Abbas War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- ruined-granite-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Winterbourne Abbas War Memorial, Churchyard of St Mary's Church, DT2 9LU
- OS grid reference
- SY 618 904
- Coordinates
- 50.71282, -2.5414
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Winterbourne Abbas War Memorial is a First World War memorial erected in 1920. It is located in the churchyard of St Mary’s Church, facing east, near the center of Winterbourne Abbas. The memorial is positioned immediately north of the Grade I listed medieval church and west of the Grade II listed late 17th century Wherry Cottage.
The memorial features a rough-hewn limestone cross with a Celtic head on a tapering shaft that stands 1.3 meters high. This shaft rises from a trapezoidal limestone plinth that is 0.5 meters high. A bronze panel is attached to the front of the plinth, inscribed with the words "TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD / AND IN MEMORY OF / (NAMES) / FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH." Four names are listed on the panel, including the surname, rank, year of death, regiment, place of death, and age at death. The plinth is supported by a square limestone base, which rests on a brick and cement foundation.
Local climate
Winterbourne Abbas 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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