Weare Giffard War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. Memorial.
Weare Giffard War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- gilded-gravel-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Weare Giffard War Memorial, Beside the Church of the Holy Trinity, Bideford, Devon, EX39 4QP
- OS grid reference
- SS 467 221
- Coordinates
- 50.97818, -4.18447
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Weare Giffard War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1921, with later additions for the Second World War. It is made of granite and is located beside the gateway to the churchyard, near the Church of the Holy Trinity, which is a Grade I listed building, and not far from the Humphreys monument, which is Grade II listed.
The memorial features a wheel-head cross with a rough-hewn tapering shaft, set on a square tapering pedestal that sits atop a substantial stone platform. It is carved from pale grey granite. The main inscription is in leaded lettering and reads on the south face: "FOR KING AND COUNTRY 1914 – 1918 1939 – 1945" followed by one name. The west face lists six names, and the east face lists five names.
Local climate
Weare Giffard War Memorial receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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