Bishops Tawton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 2016. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Bishops Tawton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- plain-forge-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Bishops Tawton War Memorial, St. John the Baptist Church, Bishop's Tawton, Barnstaple, EX32 0AB
- OS grid reference
- SS 565 301
- Coordinates
- 51.05254, -4.04748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bishops Tawton War Memorial is a war memorial cross dating from 1920, made of dressed Cornish granite. It features a three-stepped square base topped by a tapering shaft and a wheel cross. The front face of the cross displays a carved Celtic design, with bosses at each end of the arms and at the center. There are bronze plaques with inscriptions on three faces of the bottom step. The first face honors the men of the parish who made the supreme sacrifice in the Great War from 1914 to 1919, listing their names. The second face honors those who served in the Great War from 1939 to 1945, also listing names. The third face is dedicated to others who served, with their names inscribed as well.
Local climate
Bishops Tawton War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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