Worle War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 2017. War memorial.
Worle War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- solemn-hall-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Weston-super-Mare MP: Dan Aldridge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Worle War Memorial, High Street (North), Weston-Super-Mare, BS22 6HQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 354 627
- Coordinates
- 51.35995, -2.92903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Worle War Memorial is a war memorial built in 1922, with additional inscriptions added after the Second World War and in 1993. The gates were replaced in 1959.
The memorial is constructed from roughly-dressed limestone rubble with freestone dressings, topped with a gabled roof of plain tiles. The clock tower, which rises to about 9 meters, is clad with oak shingles. The building has a rectangular plan and resembles a small one-storey lychgate. It features a stone plinth and pointed-arched entrances, with mid-20th century decorative wrought-iron gates at both the front and rear. Each side of the archway has a single light with a metal screen.
Above the archway on the south gable is an inset stone tablet with the inscription in painted black lettering: "TO THOSE OF THIS / PARISH WHO DIED / & FOUGHT IN THE / GREAT WAR / 1914-1918." The clock tower has a clock face and a small louvered opening on the front (south) side, topped with a pyramidal roof and a finial. Inside the building are small corner seats.
On the west wall, there is a marble plaque inscribed: "IN MEMORY OF / THOSE OF THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918 / (NAMES) / 'THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE'." Attached to the east wall is another marble plaque that reads: "IN MEMORY OF / THOSE OF THIS PARISH WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE / IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945. / H.M. FORCES / (NAMES) / CIVILIANS / (NAMES) / 'SPLENDID YOU PASSED INTO THE LIGHT / THAT NEVERMORE SHALL FADE'." A third marble plaque states: "OTHER CONFLICTS / (NAME)."
Flanking the front of the war memorial are dwarf walls made of stone rubble with freestone coping.
Local climate
Worle War Memorial 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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