Atherington War Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 2017. War memorial.
Atherington War Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- brooding-ashlar-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Atherington War Memorial Cross, The Churchyard, Chuch of St Mary, B3227, EX37 9HU
- OS grid reference
- SS 591 230
- Coordinates
- 50.98995, -4.00894
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Atherington War Memorial Cross is located in the churchyard of the Church of St Mary, which is a Grade I-listed building, and it overlooks the road through the village. Made of granite, the memorial takes the form of a tall cross with a Maltese cross head and a tapering cross shaft. The cross shaft rises from a square plinth that stands on a low step. The front face of the cross features a further cross shape carved in low relief, and the cross shaft has a sword carved in relief, with the hilt facing downwards, which is unusual.
At the foot of the cross shaft, there is a principal dedicatory inscription that reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918." The names of those who fell in the First World War are recorded on the front face of the plinth, indicating four names and mentioning "AND THREE BROTHERS" with three additional names. The names of those who served in the Second World War are inscribed in a recessed panel on one side of the plinth, noting the years 1939 – 1945 and listing two names.
Local climate
Atherington War Memorial Cross receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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