Sutcombe War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 2019. War memorial.
Sutcombe War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- tall-transept-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Sutcombe War Memorial, The Square, Devon, EX22 7PR
- OS grid reference
- SS 346 116
- Coordinates
- 50.88097, -4.35189
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sutcombe War Memorial is a war memorial erected in 1921. It is made from Dartmoor granite and features lead lettering inscriptions.
Located prominently at the road junction in the centre of Sutcombe, the memorial consists of a Latin cross that stands on a roughly-hewn three-stepped plinth, with a square base and platform. The south face of the base is sloped.
The inscription on the south face of the top step reads:
"IN MEMORY OF THE MEN / CONNECTED WITH THIS PARISH / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE / GREAT WAR 1914-1918."
The names of six men who died in the First World War are recorded on the south face of the middle step. The inscription continues on the south face of the bottom step:
“GOD GRANT REFRESHMENT, LIGHT, ETERNAL REST / YOURS BE THE GREAT REWARD WHO PAID THE PRICE / ON US THE BURNING QUESTION BE IMPRESSED / SHALL WE PROVE WORTHY OF THE SACRIFICE?”
An additional inscription on the sloping face of the base reads:
"WORLD WAR 1939 – 1945 / (NAMES)."
The memorial is bounded by four granite posts with pyramidal caps.
Local climate
Sutcombe War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 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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