Cranborne War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 December 2019. War memorial.
Cranborne War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- sombre-render-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 December 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Cranborne War Memorial, Village Green, Wimborne Street, BH21 5PP
- OS grid reference
- SU 055 132
- Coordinates
- 50.91843, -1.92265
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cranborne War Memorial is a stone structure built in the interwar period. It features a small Latin cross with a decorative floriated crosshead that rises from a moulded collar on an octagonal shaft. This is set on a square plinth, which stands on a two-stepped base.
The east face of the plinth has an incised inscription that reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN/ PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES FOR ENGLAND’S HONOUR/ 1914 – 1918./ (NAMES)." The south face includes the dedication "1939 – 1945/ (NAMES)."
Local climate
Cranborne War Memorial receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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