Wapley War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 April 2015. War memorial.
Wapley War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- salt-lintel-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 April 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Wapley War Memorial, St Peter's Church, Wapley Hill, Dodington, BS37 8RJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 713 797
- Coordinates
- 51.51565, -2.41394
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wapley War Memorial is a granite structure created by the sculptor J Dawson and was erected in the early 1920s in the churchyard of St Peter's Church in Wapley. It commemorates the men of the parish who lost their lives serving in the First World War.
The memorial stands approximately 3.5 meters tall and features a Latin cross on a tapering shaft, which is set on a three-tiered rectangular base that rests on a rectangular low plinth. The front of the base is polished and bears an inscription in leaded lettering that reads:
ERECTED TO THE MEMORY / OF THE FALLEN / OF THIS PARISH / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919 / (Names)/ GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS/ THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE/ FOR HIS FRIENDS.
Additionally, there is a small marble plaque in the left-hand corner of the plinth, also with leaded lettering, which states:
J. DAWSON / SCULPTOR / DOWNEND.
Local climate
Wapley 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 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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