Germansweek War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 2018. Memorial.
Germansweek War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- lost-chalk-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 2018
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Germansweek War Memorial, C10m to the West of the Parish Hall, Beaworthy, EX21 5BP
- OS grid reference
- SX 439 942
- Coordinates
- 50.72691, -4.21289
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Germansweek War Memorial is a granite obelisk located within a railed enclosure outside the Parish Hall, opposite Bidlake Cottage. This tapered, rough-hewn obelisk has a square base and is topped with a pyramidal capstone, standing on a granite base. It is set on a concrete platform that can be accessed from the road via a front gate.
The main dedicatory inscription on the north-east face of the obelisk states: "IN COMMEMORATION OF PEACE 1919, THIS PLOT OF LAND WAS ENCLOSED AS A PLEASURE GROUND AND ALSO THIS MEMORIAL ERECTED BY THE PARISHIONERS IN PERPETUAL MEMORY OF THOSE OF THIS PARISH WHO SERVED THEIR KING AND COUNTRY DURING THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918."
The names of those commemorated begin on the north-west face, listing "KILLED (3 NAMES), DIED (2 NAMES), PRISONER OF WAR AT KUT (1 NAME), SERVED (3 NAMES)" and continue around the other faces. All inscriptions are made with applied metal letters.
Local climate
Germansweek War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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