Whiteshill War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 2016. War memorial.
Whiteshill War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- eastward-cobalt-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Whiteshill War Memorial, at the Junction of Main Road and Field Road, Gloucestershire, Whiteshill and Ruscombe, GL6 6AE
- OS grid reference
- SO 840 069
- Coordinates
- 51.76097, -2.2325
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whiteshill War Memorial is a First World War memorial that dates from 1919 and was later altered to include the names of those who fell in the Second World War after 1945. It is made from local limestone.
The memorial features a cross with cusped arms and carved details, set on an octagonal shaft above an octagonal base. This structure is elevated on a platform of four steps with chamfered edges. The foot of the shaft, just above the base, has a carved inscription on three sides that reads: "TO THE / GLORY / OF GOD." The corresponding three sides of the base are inscribed with: "AND IN GRATEFUL / MEMORY OF THE / MEN OF THIS PARISH / WHO GAVE / THEIR LIVES IN THE / GREAT WAR." Below this, the names and ranks of 36 men who died in the First World War are listed, along with the dates 1914-1919 on one face of the foot of the base.
Two steps of the platform feature later stone plaques. The upper plaque is inscribed with "1939 – 1945," followed by the ranks and names of those who lost their lives in the Second World War. The lower plaque reads: "1945-1995 / 50 YEARS / VE 8TH MAY 1945 / VJ 15TH AUGUST 1945 / THEY DID NOT FAIL US IN WAR / WE WILL NOT FAIL THEM IN PEACE."
The memorial is situated within a small, irregularly shaped paved enclosure, which is bordered at the back by a stone wall and on the other sides by low iron railings and a gate from the 20th century.
Local climate
Whiteshill War Memorial receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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