Lympstone War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 2017. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Lympstone War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- tangled-wall-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Lympstone War Memorial, Church Road, Exmouth, EX8 5JU
- OS grid reference
- SX 992 842
- Coordinates
- 50.64916, -3.42622
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lympstone War Memorial is a Cornish granite structure dating to around 1920. It is situated on Church Road, approximately 17 metres southwest of the Parish Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a building of group value, and opposite several other Grade II listed buildings. The memorial consists of a tall cross placed in front of a curved screen wall.
The cross itself is made of plain granite, with slightly splayed arms, and rises from a shouldered pedestal that sits upon a stepped base. The curved screen wall, constructed from coursed granite blocks and topped with simple flat coping, forms an enclosure behind the cross.
An inscription on the front of the pedestal’s face reads “I STAND/ TO THE MEMORY OF THE/ MEN OF LYMPSTONE/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN/ THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918.” A further inscription behind the cross, on the screen wall, reads "LIVE YE/ FOR/ ENGLAND" to the left and "WE FOR/ ENGLAND/ DIED" to the right. Commemorated names are listed alphabetically on the left and right wings of the wall. A later tablet, bearing the Second World War inscription “1939 – 1945/ (4 NAMES)", is fixed to the upper step of the base.
Local climate
Lympstone War Memorial receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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