Milton Abbot War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 2017. War memorial.
Milton Abbot War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- tilted-cupola-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Milton Abbot War Memorial, The Churchyard, the Church of St Constantine, Fore Street, Tavistock, PL19 0PA
- OS grid reference
- SX 407 792
- Coordinates
- 50.59155, -4.25112
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Milton Abbot War Memorial is located in the north-east corner of the churchyard of the Parish Church of St Constantine, which is a Grade I-listed building. It is near several Grade II-listed churchyard monuments and the lych gate. The memorial features a tall granite cross that rises from a pedestal, which is set on a three-stepped base.
The cross is a plain Latin design with an octagonal section and is decorated with a carved reversed sword. The moulded foot of the cross shaft extends from the corniced pedestal, which is square in shape and rests on an octagonal three-stepped base. The main dedicatory inscription on the front face of the pedestal reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN PROUD MEMORY OF/ (10 NAMES)/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING/ AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918."
There is also a later inscription for the Second World War at the foot of the pedestal, which states: "1939 – 1945/ (1 NAME)." All inscriptions are made with applied metal lettering.
Local climate
Milton Abbot War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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