War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 2007. War memorial.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- hushed-pediment-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 July 2007
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, Kentisbury
- OS grid reference
- SS 621 437
- Coordinates
- 51.17655, -3.97281
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial in Kentisbury was built after 1918 and is made of light grey granite. It features a tapering square plinth that rises to a square shaft, which is topped by a wheel-headed cross. The memorial is enclosed by a wall that includes metal posts with two simple chains.
On the north face of the plinth, there is a granite plaque that reads: "In memory of/(5 names)/ who fell in the Great War 1914 -1919 / the glorious dead." The memorial is situated within a memorial garden that has wrought iron gates.
War memorials like this one are important as they serve as focal points for memorial services and remind us of the human cost of conflict. This particular memorial in Kentisbury is noted for its elegant and well-executed design, and it is associated with other listed memorials and buildings in the area.
Local climate
War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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