Box and Ditteridge War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 2017. Memorial.
Box and Ditteridge War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- under-tallow-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 2017
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Box and Ditteridge War Memorial, Junction of Bath Road and Devizes Road, SN13 8DY
- OS grid reference
- ST 823 684
- Coordinates
- 51.4147, -2.25468
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Box and Ditteridge War Memorial is located at the center of a small garden at the junction of the Bath Road (A4) and the Devizes Road (A365). The garden is surrounded by a stone wall with pillars on the north and east sides, and posts at street level on the south side that support spiked chains. The memorial is made from local limestone.
It features a very tall octagonal cross that stands on an elaborate two-stage plinth with an octagonal three-stepped base. The foot of the cross shaft is heavily moulded and rests on the upper stage, which is a square corniced pedestal with volutes at the corners. The lower stage is octagonal and also corniced, displaying eight inset limestone panels that list the names of those commemorated. Two of these panels still have their original incised inscriptions, while the other six were replaced in or after 1936 due to weather damage to the originals.
The main dedicatory inscription on the western panel states: "ERECTED A.D. 1920, BY PUBLIC/ SUBSCRIPTION./ IN EVER GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF/ THE MEN FROM BOX AND DITTERIDGE,/ WHO DURING THE GREAT WAR 1914-18,/ LEFT ALL THAT WAS DEAR TO THEM/ AT THE CALL OF DUTY,/ TO ENDURE HARDSHIP, TO FACE DANGER,/ AND GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE WORLD."
Additionally, there is an inscription around the foot of the cross shaft that reads: "THEIR/ NAME/ LIVETH/ FOR/ EVERMORE."
On the upper stage of the plinth, three bronze panels commemorate the 18 parishioners who died during the Second World War.
Local climate
Box and Ditteridge 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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