Great Somerford War Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 2017. War memorial.
Great Somerford War Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- first-ember-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Great Somerford War Memorial Cross, C25m North-West of the Close, Junction of Top Street, Park Lane, and Hollow Street, SN15 5JD
- OS grid reference
- ST 963 829
- Coordinates
- 51.54535, -2.05466
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Great Somerford War Memorial Cross is located in a small grassed area at the junction of Top Street, Hollow Street, and Park Lane, and is overlooked by The Close and The Old Maltings, both of which are Grade II-listed.
This stone memorial stands approximately 4.2 meters high and features a small floriated Latin cross atop a tall octagonal shaft. The shaft is mounted on a small square plinth with a two-stepped base. The entire structure rests on a square slab that is flush with the ground and surrounded by a lawn. The grassed area is bordered by low bollards connected by chains.
The main inscription is located on the east-facing side of the plinth, where applied metal lettering states "OUR GLORIOUS DEAD/ (13 NAMES)/ 1914 – 1918." On the west-facing side, there is an additional inscription that reads "IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION/ ALSO OF/ ALL FROM OUR VILLAGE/ WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR."
Names of those who fell in the Second World War have been added to the south-facing side of the plinth, with an inscription that reads "1939 – 1945/ (5 NAMES)."
Local climate
Great Somerford War Memorial Cross receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings