Wayside Cross War Memorial east of the Roman Catholic Church of the Annunciation is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 2002. War memorial.
Wayside Cross War Memorial east of the Roman Catholic Church of the Annunciation
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-loggia-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 2002
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Wayside Cross War Memorial east of the Roman Catholic Church of the Annunciation, Wayside Cross War Memorial to the East of the Rc Church of the Annunciation, Bath Road, Woodchester, Gloucestershire
- OS grid reference
- SO 842 010
- Coordinates
- 51.70819, -2.22907
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wayside Cross War Memorial, dedicated in 1917, is a First World War memorial located east of the Roman Catholic Church of the Annunciation. It features a timber cross set on a stone plinth, which is aligned as a cross with equal length arms. The memorial stands on a terrace on steeply sloping land below the church, representing the last remaining element of the former Priory at Woodchester. The stone plinth is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with ashlar coping, and the names of the fallen are inscribed on ashlar panels on each face of the walls. A flight of steps leads down to a path, with a later 20th-century wooden gate onto Bath Road, flanked by ashlar piers that extend to stone-coped rubble dwarf walls and similar outer piers.
Local climate
Wayside Cross War Memorial east of the Roman Catholic Church of the Annunciation receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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