Downend Boy Scouts' War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 2015. Memorial.
Downend Boy Scouts' War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-ledge-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Filton and Bradley Stoke MP: Claire Hazelgrove (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 2015
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- ST 651 767
- Coordinates
- 51.48853, -2.50316
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Downend Boy Scouts' War Memorial is a war memorial unveiled in November 1921, built and possibly designed by Mr. J Dawson, commemorating the boy scouts from the 1st Downend Troop who died in the First World War. The monument is made of rock-hewn stone and features a bronze plaque with inset bronze lettering.
The memorial takes the form of an obelisk that rises from a two-step plinth, which sits on a square platform. At the top of the obelisk is a stone cross. There is a deep, projecting string course located roughly halfway up the obelisk, with a cyma moulding on the underside and a curved upper surface. On the south-west face, above the string course, is a circular plaque displaying the Fleur-de-lis of the Boy Scouts movement. Below the string course is an inscription that reads ‘1st DOWNEND TROOP / BOY SCOUTS. / TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1919 / (Names)’. Inscribed on the upper step of the plinth is the phrase ‘CALLED TO HIGHER SERVICE’. The other sides of the monument are plain, except for the continuous string course.
Local climate
Downend Boy Scouts' War Memorial receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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