Aston Clinton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 2015. War memorial.
Aston Clinton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- open-trefoil-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SP 875 122
- Coordinates
- 51.80168, -0.73229
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Aston Clinton War Memorial is a war memorial cross built in 1921, designed and constructed by Newman and Harper of Aylesbury. It is made from pale grey Cornish granite and is situated within a semi-circular roadside plot, which is enclosed by box hedging at the back and features a row of eight granite piers connected by iron chains at the front.
The memorial consists of a Celtic cross atop a tapered plinth, which rests on a square base set on a grass hillock. The granite has a roughly hewn finish, except for a smoothly dressed panel on the front of the plinth. This panel is inscribed with applied lettering that reads: ‘TO / THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN MEMORIAL OF THE MEN OF / ASTON CLINTON / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918’, followed by the names of 30 men listed by surname. Below this, the dates ‘1939-1945’ are inscribed along with the names of 13 men, and the inscription ‘GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS / THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS’.
Local climate
Aston Clinton War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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