Hitcham War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 2017. War memorial.
Hitcham War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- empty-moat-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Hitcham War Memorial, Outside St Mary's Church, Hitcham Lane, Burnham
- OS grid reference
- SU 920 825
- Coordinates
- 51.53438, -0.67493
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hitcham War Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the First World War, with additions for the Second World War. It is located in Hitcham Lane on a grass verge by the roadside, south of the Grade I-listed Church of St Mary.
The memorial features a stone Latin cross-head atop an octagonal, tapering column with a moulded foot. Each face of the column has small, recessed arches at its base, positioned directly above the foot. The column rises from a moulded pedestal, which sits on a square plinth with a three-stepped, octagonal base. The pedestal has a chamfered top and a moulded scroll design at the bottom of each corner. The plinth is a square block resting on a chamfered foot. A narrow square block separates the pedestal from the plinth and displays the dates of the conflicts on two sides.
The principal inscription and dates are carved in raised lettering, while the names are incised. The west face reads: "THEY SLEEP WITH/ THE EMPIRE'S BEST/ AND NOBLEST SONS/ (6 NAMES)"; the south face states: "WHO IN THE/ GLORIOUS MORNING/ OF THEIR DAYS/ 1914-1918/ (6 NAMES)"; and the east face says: "FOR ENGLAND'S /SAKE LOST ALL BUT/ ENGLAND'S PRAISE/ (6 NAMES)."
On the north side of the plinth, the names of four individuals who died during the Second World War are inscribed, along with the dates 1939 – 1945.
Local climate
Hitcham War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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