Akeley War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 April 2017. War memorial.
Akeley War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- winter-passage-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 April 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Akeley War Memorial, Churchyard of the Former Church of St James, Main Street, Buckingham, MK18 5HR
- OS grid reference
- SP 708 377
- Coordinates
- 52.03383, -0.96919
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Akeley War Memorial is a First World War memorial that was unveiled in 1920 and is situated in the churchyard of the former Church of St James, which has since been demolished. The memorial was restored in 2008 by HW Masons and Sons of Newport Pagnall.
It features a stone wheel cross on a slim shaft, which rises from a moulded plinth that sits atop a chamfered base. In 2008, granite tablets were placed over the original inscriptions on the plinth, replicating the original text. The lettering on these tablets is incised and painted in black.
On the north face of the memorial, the inscription reads: "PASS NOT THIS SHRINE/ IN SORROW BUT IN PRIDE/AND MAY YOU LIVE AS/NOBLY AS THEY DIED," with nine names listed below. The south face bears the inscription: "IN THANKFUL REMEMBRANCE/OF THOSE FROM THIS PARISH/WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES/IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918. GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS/ THAT A MAN LAY DOWN/ HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS." The east and west panels are blank.
Local climate
Akeley War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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