Crediton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Crediton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- rooted-casement-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Crediton War Memorial, Union Street
- OS grid reference
- SS 834 002
- Coordinates
- 50.78988, -3.65503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crediton War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1923 by Frederick Bligh Bond. It features a timber frame with a central pier made of sandstone and has a shingle roof topped with a spire. The structure is designed in the style of a Medieval market cross, with an octagonal plan and a timber arcade consisting of moulded two-centred arches. The posts of the arcade rest on stone pads, and the arcade-plate supports a steeply pitched shingle roof that rises to an open timber lantern, which is crowned by a tall shingle spire with a simple wrought-iron cross at the top. The roof and spire have bell-cast eaves. Inside, the memorial has an arch-braced timber roof structure supported by an octagonal sandstone pier that extends through the center. This pier has an integral seat around its base and features Portland stone panels on the sides, inscribed with the names of the fallen. The floor is made of randomly laid sandstone. This memorial is noted for its exceptional design and craftsmanship, resembling a market cross.
Local climate
Crediton War Memorial receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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