Iddesleigh 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.
Iddesleigh War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-cloister-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Iddesleigh War Memorial, The Churchyard, the Church of St James, Winkleigh, EX19 8BG
- OS grid reference
- SS 569 082
- Coordinates
- 50.85561, -4.03421
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Iddesleigh War Memorial is located in the south-east corner of the churchyard of the Church of St James, which is listed as Grade I, and is near a Grade II-listed chest tomb. The memorial features a granite wheel-head cross with a reversed sword carved in low relief on the front. The cross shaft rises from a tapered plinth that sits on a square base.
On the front face of the plinth, there is a dedicatory inscription that reads, “TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/ NOBLE LIVES LAID DOWN BY MEN/ OF IDDESLEIGH 1914 – 1919.” This is followed by seven names and the phrase, “THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE.”
Local climate
Iddesleigh War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
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