War memorial adjacent to St Mary's Church is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 2005. War memorial.
War memorial adjacent to St Mary's Church
- WRENN ID
- endless-baluster-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- East Hampshire MP: Damian Hinds (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 2005
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War memorial adjacent to St Mary's Church, GU31 5RT
- OS grid reference
- SU 739 200
- Coordinates
- 50.97495, -0.94765
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial, made of Portland stone, is located on a small green area at the junction of High Street and North Lane, to the north-west of St Mary's Church, which is listed at Grade II*, and the Grade II-listed churchyard gates, along with several other listed buildings nearby. The memorial is designed as a Gothic shrine topped with a cross.
It features a two-stepped base that is square in shape, supporting a tall plinth with two stages and chamfered corners. The middle stage has four panels facing north, south, east, and west, separated by tall splayed blind panels adorned with Gothic ornamentation and gabled heads. Above this is a short octagonal drum with recessed blind panels that have ogee heads on each of the four faces. The entire structure culminates in a tapering spire, which is topped by a small floriated wheel-head cross.
The principal dedicatory inscription on the west-facing panel of the central stage reads: +/ IN PROUD/ AND GRATEFUL/ MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF/ THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WARS/ 1914 - 1919/ &/ 1939 - 1945. The north and south panels list 38 names in alphabetical order. The east panel bears the inscription RIP/ 1939 – 1945, followed by eight names also in alphabetical order. The monument is enclosed by two curved stone dwarf walls, with an entrance on the south side.
Local climate
War memorial adjacent to St Mary's Church receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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