Rowde War Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 2017. War memorial.
Rowde War Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- buried-zinc-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Rowde War Memorial Cross, The Churchyard, St Matthew's Church, High Street, SN10 2PW
- OS grid reference
- ST 978 626
- Coordinates
- 51.36292, -2.03242
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rowde War Memorial Cross is a granite memorial located beside a path in the churchyard of the Church of St Matthew, which is also a Grade II* listed building. It is situated near several other Grade II-listed monuments in the churchyard. The memorial features a plain rough-hewn Latin cross that stands on a tapering rough-hewn plinth, which has a two-stepped square base.
The main dedicatory inscription on the front face of the plinth is made of applied metal lettering and reads: "IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE BRAVE OFFICERS AND MEN OF ROWDE WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1919. (NAMES) REMEMBER THE NAMES OF THEM WHO CAME NOT HOME FROM THE WAR."
On the right-hand face of the plinth, there is a later inscription commemorating those who fell in the Second World War, which reads: "IN REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE WAR 1939-1945 (NAMES)."
Local climate
Rowde War Memorial Cross receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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