War Memorial Including Posts and Chains is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. A Early 20th century War memorial.
War Memorial Including Posts and Chains
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-mortar-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial Including Posts and Chains, Rock Park, Barnstaple
- OS grid reference
- SS 561 326
- Coordinates
- 51.07522, -4.05496
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial, dedicated to those who fell in the First World War, was erected in 1922 and is located in Rock Park, Barnstaple. It is made of granite and features a square pedestal with a moulded cap and base, which stands on three steps. Atop the pedestal is a tall cross with a moulded base, and the head and arms of the cross also have moulded caps. A bronze wreath rests against the north side of the base of the cross.
On the north and south faces of the pedestal, there are inset bronze plaques listing the names of the men from Barnstaple who died in the Great War from 1914 to 1918. The other two sides of the pedestal feature similar plaques commemorating those from the borough who lost their lives during the Second World War from 1939 to 1945.
The memorial is enclosed by twelve short, tapered granite posts topped with low pyramidal caps, which support heavy spiked chains; however, two chains are missing on the north side.
Local climate
War Memorial Including Posts and Chains 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 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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