War Memorial in Princess Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. War memorial.
War Memorial in Princess Gardens
- WRENN ID
- winding-lancet-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1994
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SX 916 634
- Coordinates
- 50.46116, -3.52841
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial in Princess Gardens is a First World War memorial built in 1920 by R Blomfield. It is made of Portland stone with bronze details. The memorial features three steps leading up to a deep plinth, from which a three-tiered monument rises on a tiered base, square in shape. Each face of the monument has inscription panels and wreaths. The upper two tiers are coped, with the second tier displaying inverted torches on each face. The memorial is topped with an urn.
Local climate
War Memorial in Princess Gardens receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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