Sidmouth War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 2015. Memorial.
Sidmouth War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- lunar-cinder-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 2015
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Sidmouth War Memorial, The Church of St Giles and St Nicholas, Church Lane, EX10 8LG
- OS grid reference
- SY 125 873
- Coordinates
- 50.67914, -3.23904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sidmouth War Memorial is a war memorial erected between 1920 and 1921, designed by architect R W Sampson. It is made of granite and features a Celtic cross that rises continuously from a tall, tapering column. The cross has a wheel, intricately carved with knots, measuring 30 centimeters in diameter. The column, which stands at 2.75 meters high, includes recessed panels and a knot motif just below the head of the cross.
The cross is set upon a four-tier base, where the lower sections are octagonal, and the uppermost tier is four-sided, adorned with recessed panels on its faces and curved blocks at the corners. The main part of the base features a cornice and recessed panels, with the original inscription on the south-east face, facing the entrance to the churchyard. This inscription reads: ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND / IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF / SIDMOUTH / WHO FELL / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 - 1918 / THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE’. On the opposite face, a later inscription added after the Second World War states: ‘ALSO OF THOSE WHO / GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE WORLD WAR / 1939-1945 / GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS.’
In front of each inscribed panel, there is a small granite flower-holder. The entire memorial is elevated on two octagonal steps.
Local climate
Sidmouth War Memorial receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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