Buckland Monachorum War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 2016. War memorial.
Buckland Monachorum War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- fossil-eave-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Buckland Monachorum War Memorial, The Green, Crapstone, Devon, West Devon, PL20 7PE
- OS grid reference
- SX 504 678
- Coordinates
- 50.49111, -4.10925
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Buckland Monachorum War Memorial is a granite memorial cross located on The Green in Crapstone. The memorial features a five-stepped octagonal base topped by a square plinth with blind buttresses at the corners. A tapering cross shaft rises from the hooded top of the plinth, supporting a Latin cross with budded cross arms.
Lead lettering inscriptions are present on the steps and plinth. The main dedicatory inscription reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD & IN HONOUR OF THE MEN OF BUCKLAND PARISH WHO DIED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1919 LIVE THOU FOR ENGLAND WE FOR ENGLAND DIED." A dedication for the Second World War is inscribed around the upper steps of the base, stating: "IN GLORY EVERLASTING MAKE THEM TO BE NUMBERED WITH THE SAINTS 1939 – 1945." Names of the fallen are recorded on the other faces of the plinth and base steps.
Granite posts surrounding the edge of the green support a chain that encloses the memorial.
Local climate
Buckland Monachorum War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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