Colerne War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 2017. War memorial.
Colerne War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- riven-cloister-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Colerne War Memorial, Market Place, SN14 8DF
- OS grid reference
- ST 820 711
- Coordinates
- 51.43915, -2.26025
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Colerne War Memorial is located on a small grassy area at the edge of the Market Place, near the Walmesley memorial and surrounded by several Grade II listed buildings and the Grade I Church of St John the Baptist.
The memorial is made of Bath stone and features a tapering Latin cross that rises from a moulded collar atop a tall octagonal shaft. This cross shaft is positioned on a large, four-sided, tiered plinth that has corner buttresses, each adorned with a blind trefoil arch. The main faces of the plinth display the dedication and the names of those commemorated. The memorial includes a two-stage sloping base and rests on a square stone slab.
The main inscription reads: "FOR KING AND COUNTRY/ IN LASTING MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF THIS VILLAGE/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918/ ERECTED BY/ PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTIONS," with the dates "1939 – 1945" and two names listed below. The plinth also commemorates the First World War combatants, with the names of the later Second World War casualties noted beneath them.
Local climate
Colerne War Memorial receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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