Bradninch War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 2017. War memorial. 5 related planning applications.
Bradninch War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- upper-mortar-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Bradninch War Memorial, The Guildhall, Fore Street, EX5 4NN
- OS grid reference
- SS 999 039
- Coordinates
- 50.82682, -3.42176
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bradninch War Memorial is a tall memorial made of Dartmoor granite, located in the forecourt of the town Guildhall, which is also a Grade II-listed building. The memorial features a wheel-head cross designed in the Celtic style, standing on a plinth and a three-stepped octagonal base. The arms of the cross are decorated with interlace knots and a central hemispherical boss. At the base of the cross shaft, there is a small shield that displays the town’s heraldic device, a spread eagle.
The main dedicatory inscription on the front face of the tapering plinth states: "FAITHFUL TO KING AND COUNTRY./ TO THE HONOURED MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF BRADNINCH/ WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1919./ 'BECAUSE YOU LIVE, THOUGH OUT OF SIGHT, AND REACH,/ I WILL, SO HELP ME GOD, GIVE BRAVELY TOO'." The names of those commemorated from the First World War are listed on the sides of the plinth.
A later dedication on the front face of the uppermost step reads: "ALSO OF THOSE/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE WAR 1939 - 1945," with the names from the Second World War recorded on other faces of this step. Additionally, on the front face of the middle step, there is an inscription that states: "WAR IN KOREA/ (1 NAME)."
Local climate
Bradninch War Memorial receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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