Minstead Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 2015. Memorial cross.
Minstead Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- grey-soffit-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest National Park
- Constituency
- New Forest East MP: Sir Julian Lewis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 2015
- Type
- Memorial cross
- Address
- Minstead Memorial Cross, The Green, Hampshire, SO43 7GS
- OS grid reference
- SU 281 110
- Coordinates
- 50.89789, -1.60114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Minstead Memorial Cross is located at the south-west corner of the green in the center of Minstead village, next to a well that is shown on the earliest Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map from 1869. The well is capped with a square wooden cover featuring ornamental wrought iron hinges and a handle. Surrounding the memorial and well is an octagonal area of paving enclosed by an oak post-and-rail fence.
The memorial stands approximately 3 meters tall and is constructed from Bath stone. It features a floriated cross atop a hexagonal shaft that rises from a moulded base. This base is set on a square plinth that displays the inscriptions, which are carved in relief. The front of the plinth reads, "IN MEMORY OF/ THE MEN FROM/ THIS PARISH/ WHO DIED FOR/ KING & COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT/ WAR 1914 - 1919/ 1939 - 1945." The back of the plinth states, "THE NAMES OF THE FALLEN/ ARE INSCRIBED ON A MARBLE/ TABLET IN THE PARISH CHURCH." The plinth itself rests on a low, square step.
Local climate
Minstead Memorial Cross receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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