War Memorial at the Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 July 2025. Memorial. 1 related planning application.
War Memorial at the Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- solitary-gravel-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Weston-super-Mare MP: Dan Aldridge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 July 2025
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- War Memorial at the Church of St John the Baptist, St John's Church, Lower Church Road, Weston-Super-Mare, BS23 2AG
- OS grid reference
- ST 317 619
- Coordinates
- 51.35229, -2.98112
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial at the Church of St John the Baptist is a First World War memorial built in 1922. It is made of limestone and is located in the churchyard to the south of the church, near the entrance on the west side.
The memorial features a lantern cross atop a tapering octagonal shaft. It stands on a square stone pedestal with chamfered angles, which is set upon a four-stepped octagonal base. The plinth of the memorial is inscribed with the words: ‘IN THANKFUL REMEM- / BRANCE OF THE MEN / OF THIS PARISH AND / CONGREGATION / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 -1918’.
Local climate
War Memorial at the Church of St John the Baptist receives an average of 820 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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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