Symondsbury War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 2015. War memorial.
Symondsbury War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-wicket-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Symondsbury War Memorial, Churchyard of St John the Baptist's Church, Mill Lane, DT6 6HB
- OS grid reference
- SY 444 936
- Coordinates
- 50.73942, -2.78792
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Symondsbury War Memorial is a memorial dedicated to those who fell in the First and Second World Wars. It was erected around 1920, with the names of the fallen from the Second World War added after 1945.
Constructed from granite set in a concrete foundation, the memorial is located in the churchyard of St John the Baptist Church, near the center of Symondsbury. It faces south and is situated immediately south of the Grade I listed medieval church and north of the Grade II listed late 19th-century Church of England primary school.
The memorial features a rough-hewn granite cross with a Celtic head, adorned with raised interlace and knotwork. The cross stands on a tapering shaft approximately 2.5 meters high, which rises from a three-tier stepped octagonal plinth that is about 0.7 meters high. The center of the cross displays the Chi-Rho symbol, a monogram that abbreviates the name of Jesus Christ. The front of the middle step of the plinth is inscribed with the words "IN REMEMBRANCE OF SYMONDSBURY MEN WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918." The names of 28 individuals are inscribed on six sides of the memorial. Additionally, the front of the lower step bears the inscription "1939-1945" followed by five names of the fallen from the Second World War. The memorial is set in a square concrete foundation.
Local climate
Symondsbury War Memorial receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% 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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