Black Torrington War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 2017. War memorial.
Black Torrington War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- western-cobalt-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Black Torrington War Memorial, Broad Street, Junction with Victoria Road, EX21 5PT
- OS grid reference
- SS 465 054
- Coordinates
- 50.82824, -4.18014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Black Torrington War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920 and altered after the Second World War. It is made of granite and features a rough-hewn Latin cross set on a tapering shaft, which ends in a tapering square plinth on a two-stepped base.
The memorial has inscriptions on recessed panels on the face of the plinth. The main inscription on the front reads: "IN MEMORY OF/ THOSE FROM THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1919/ (NAMES)." The side face is inscribed with "1939 – 1945/ (NAMES)."
The memorial is situated on a green, with shallow steps bordered by rounded-topped edging stones leading up to it. The edge of the green is marked by tapering, square-section pylons connected by metal link fencing. At the foot of the steps, there is a gateway with larger pylons serving as piers and a wrought-iron pedestrian gate.
Local climate
Black Torrington War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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