Devon County War Memorial and Processional Way is a Grade II* listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 April 2009. War memorial.
Devon County War Memorial and Processional Way
- WRENN ID
- unlit-porch-meadow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exeter MP: Steve Race (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 April 2009
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Devon County War Memorial and Processional Way, Cathedral Green
- OS grid reference
- SX 919 925
- Coordinates
- 50.72265, -3.53152
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Devon County War Memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, was completed in 1921 and is made of Haytor granite. It features three stone steps leading to a rectangular plinth, which is topped by a three-tiered rectangular base. This base transitions via spurs into a lozenge-shaped tapered shaft, crowned with a contemporary chamfered cross. The central tier of the base bears the inscription: 'THE COUNTY/OF/DEVON/TO/HER GLORIOUS DEAD/1914-1919/TE DEUM LAUDAMUS/1939-1945'.
The Processional Way, designed by Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe in 1974, consists of a granite-paved forecourt located at the west end of the cathedral. It includes diminishing stone steps that vary in width and height, lined with a pebble gully, leading up to a platform on the north side of the war memorial.
Local climate
Devon County War Memorial and Processional Way receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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