Ashwater War Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 2017. War memorial.
Ashwater War Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- riven-mullion-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Ashwater War Memorial Cross, The Village Green, Devon, EX21 5EY
- OS grid reference
- SX 385 952
- Coordinates
- 50.73424, -4.28866
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ashwater War Memorial Cross is located on the village green, near several listed buildings, including the Grade I Church of St Peter. This memorial features a tall granite wheel-head cross, with the front face decorated with interlace patterns and spirals carved in low relief. The cross shaft rises from a tapering plinth that sits on a low step. Surrounding the memorial are railings attached to four tall granite posts.
The main dedicatory inscription on the front face of the plinth reads: "IN HONOUR OF ALL ASHWATER MEN WHO FOUGHT IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 AND IN MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING WHO FELL FOR KING AND COUNTRY" followed by 12 names. On the rear face of the plinth, a later inscription states: "ALSO IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THOSE WHO PAID THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE 1939-1945 WAR" followed by 4 names, concluding with "GRANT UNTO THEM ETERNAL REST."
Local climate
Ashwater 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 84% 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 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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