Staple Hill War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 2015. War memorial.
Staple Hill War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- ruined-truss-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Bristol North East MP: Damien Egan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Staple Hill War Memorial, Page Park, Broad Street, BS16 5LU
- OS grid reference
- ST 654 759
- Coordinates
- 51.48118, -2.49932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Staple Hill War Memorial is a granite structure, designed by an unknown architect, built around 1921. It features an obelisk with a tapering shaft made of hammered stone, which stands on a high, square plinth with a moulded base and cornice. Each face of the obelisk has a bronze relief of a laurel wreath accompanied by two draped flags. The plinth and its base are adorned with bronze plaques that bear inscriptions and the names of those who fell in the First and Second World Wars. The inscriptions state: "IN GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THE MEN OF DOWNEND AND SOUNDWELL WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 'THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE' IN GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE URBAN DISTRICT OF MANGOTSFIELD WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES DURING THE 1939-45 WAR AND OTHER CAMPAIGNS 'WE WILL REMEMBER THEM'." Each upper corner of the plinth features an applied bronze putto and swag. The memorial is set on a three-stepped platform made of roughly-dressed granite.
Local climate
Staple Hill 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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