Alwington War Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 2017. War memorial.
Alwington War Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-eave-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Alwington War Memorial Cross, St Andrew's Churchyard, Devon, EX39 5DA
- OS grid reference
- SS 404 231
- Coordinates
- 50.98553, -4.27433
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Alwington War Memorial Cross is a Dartmoor granite memorial located in the churchyard south of the Church of St Andrew, which is listed as Grade I, and opposite a listed medieval churchyard cross socket stone. The memorial features a tall cross with a Maltese cross head, made from rough-hewn granite with finely finished edges. The monogram IHS is carved in the center of the cross head. The cross shaft is set on a four-stepped, octagonal base.
The dedication is inscribed on the front face of the uppermost stage of the base and continues on the stages below. It reads: "R.I.P./ TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF ALWINGTON WHO DIED FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919 THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE/ ERECTED BY THE PARISHIONERS/ (11 NAMES)/ ALSO IN MEMORY OF ARTHUR W BLIGHT WHO FELL IN/ WORLD WAR 1939-1945."
Local climate
Alwington War Memorial Cross 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 85% 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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