Lifton 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.
Lifton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-hinge-myrtle
- 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
- Lifton War Memorial, The Churchyard, St Mary's Church, Parsonage Court, PL16 0BW
- OS grid reference
- SX 386 850
- Coordinates
- 50.64267, -4.28398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lifton War Memorial is a granite structure approximately 5 meters tall, located in the churchyard of the Church of St Mary, which is a Grade I-listed building, and it overlooks Parsonage Court. The memorial is designed as a plain Latin cross with an octagonal shape, standing on a four-stepped octagonal base.
The main dedicatory inscription starts on the front face of the upper step of the base, stating "TO THE GLORY OF GOD" and continues on the step below with "AND IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF LIFTON WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918." The names of those commemorated are listed on the faces of the step below this, while the inscription for the Second World War is located on the front face of the lowest step, reading "1939 – 1945 (6 NAMES)." All inscriptions are made with applied metal lettering.
Local climate
Lifton 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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