Abbotsbury War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 2015. War memorial.
Abbotsbury War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- white-truss-lake
- 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
- Abbotsbury War Memorial, Churchyard of St Nicholas's Church, DT3 4JJ
- OS grid reference
- SY 577 852
- Coordinates
- 50.6651, -2.59943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Abbotsbury War Memorial is a granite structure located in the churchyard of St Nicholas Church. It is situated to the north-west of the Grade I listed medieval church and to the south-east of the Grade II* listed late 16th century Manor House. The memorial features an ashlar granite cross with a Celtic head, decorated with interlace and knotwork carved in relief. The cross is mounted on a tapering shaft approximately 1.5 meters high, which rises from a trapezoidal granite plinth. The shaft bears the inscription: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF MEN OF ABBOTSBURY WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES DURING THE WAR 1914-1919." The top of the plinth has a hollow chamfer where it connects with the shaft. There are 13 names inscribed on the front of the plinth, which has a tooled outer edge and sits on a square granite base with a pebble and concrete foundation.
Local climate
Abbotsbury 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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