Churchdown War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Tewkesbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 2019. War memorial.
Churchdown War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- sheer-flint-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tewkesbury
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 February 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Churchdown War Memorial, Church of St Andrew, Church Street, Gloucestershire, GL3 2JT
- OS grid reference
- SO 883 198
- Coordinates
- 51.87684, -2.1708
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Churchdown War Memorial is a First World War memorial that was unveiled in 1921, with additional names added following later conflicts. It is constructed of ashlar and features bronze plaques.
The memorial consists of a stone cross on a collared shaft. The cross head has a carved rose and oak leaf at its center, while the base of the cross shaft displays a carved wreath on each face. The shaft rises from a plinth that sits on a three-stepped octagonal base.
Bronze plaques bearing the names of the fallen are affixed to the faces of the plinth. The north and south faces of the base of the plinth have two carved square-leaf bosses. The other faces of the plinth base feature an inscription that reads, in a clockwise direction from the north-east: "HAVE IN HONOUR/ ALL THOSE SONS/ OF CHURCHDOWN/ WHO WENT FORTH/ TO SERVE IN THE/ YEARS 1914-1918/ GREATER LOVE/ HATH NO MAN/ THAN THIS/ THAT HE LAY/ DOWN HIS LIFE/ FOR HIS FRIENDS."
A bronze plaque on the north-west face of the top step reads "1939-1945," and the names of the fallen from that conflict are recorded on bronze plaques on the north and west faces. Additionally, a square bronze plaque on the north-west face of the middle step commemorates a serviceman who lost his life in the Malayan Emergency.
Local climate
Churchdown War Memorial receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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