Sheepstor War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 2019. War memorial.
Sheepstor War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- distant-flint-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Sheepstor War Memorial, Church of St Leonard, Devon, West Devon, PL20 6PF
- OS grid reference
- SX 559 676
- Coordinates
- 50.49084, -4.03144
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sheepstor War Memorial is a First World War memorial that was unveiled in 1920 and later altered following the Second World War. It is made of granite quarried from within Sheepstor parish and features slate panels.
Located in the churchyard at St Leonard's Church, the memorial stands a short distance from the Andrew headstone and the Brooke monuments. It consists of a rough-hewn plain Latin cross set on a tapering square plinth with a two-stepped square base, all carved from pale grey granite.
The main inscription is on a recessed slate panel on the eastern face of the plinth, featuring incised lettering that reads:
IN/ GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/ (NAMES)/ OF THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR KING AND/ COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-19/ GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT/ A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS/ ST JOHN 15 V. 13
On the western face of the plinth, another recessed slate panel bears a further inscription in incised letters that reads:
1939 - 1945/ (NAMES)/ OF THIS PARISH.
Local climate
Sheepstor War Memorial receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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