Musbury War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 2017. Memorial.
Musbury War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- rusted-tin-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 2017
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Musbury War Memorial, C15m to the West of St Michael's Church, Axminster, EX13 8BB
- OS grid reference
- SY 275 945
- Coordinates
- 50.74617, -3.02844
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Musbury War Memorial is a dark freestone structure located on top of the churchyard wall, to the west of the Church of St Michael, which is a Grade I-listed building, and immediately to the right of the churchyard gate. Designed like a shrine, the memorial features a tablet mounted on a raised panel with a pedimented top and two curved braces on the sides that create a shelf at the front for placing floral tributes. The pediment is adorned with a carved relief wreath, with the dates 1914 and 1919 on either side.
The inscription on the memorial reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN/ FROM THIS PARISH WHO/ FELL IN THE TWO GREAT WARS./ 1914 – 1918/ (8 NAMES)/ MISSING/ (1 NAME)/ 1939 – 1945/ (4 NAMES)/ MAY THEY REST IN PEACE." The names of the fallen are listed along with their respective regiments or services.
Local climate
Musbury War Memorial receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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