Second World War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Memorial.
Second World War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- turning-cinder-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Second World War Memorial, Churchyard of St Laurence's Church, Affpuddle, Dorchester, Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle
- OS grid reference
- SY 805 936
- Coordinates
- 50.7425, -2.27682
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Second World War memorial is located in the Garden of Peace. It is a three-sided structure made of brick and timber, topped with a plain clay tile pitched roof, resembling a shelter. The gabled roof features vine carvings on the bargeboards. There is an open doorway with a pointed-arched head and incised spandrels, above which the dates 1939 and 1945 are inscribed on a horizontal rail. On either side of the doorway, stone tablets list the names of the seven men who died. Inside, the back wall displays a wooden sculpture of the Crucifixion by Loughnan Pendred, which rests on a stone base inscribed with the words: THY SIN IS MY PAIN.
Local climate
Second World War Memorial receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% 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 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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