Holmer Green War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 2016. War memorial.
Holmer Green War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- sacred-glass-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Holmer Green War Memorial, The Common, Little Missenden, HP15 6XQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 905 973
- Coordinates
- 51.668, -0.69163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holmer Green War Memorial is located on the north side of The Common, across from the Recreation Ground. It is positioned off the footway outside Christ Church, raised above street level by two low, paved steps.
The memorial features a sandstone obelisk, square in shape, standing approximately 3 meters tall with a shallow pyramidal top. A Latin cross is incised at the top on the front (south) face. The obelisk is mounted on a square, slightly tapered plinth with cyma recta moulding.
All inscriptions are incised. The front face of the plinth displays the main dedicatory inscription: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND TO THE BELOVED MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF HOLMER GREEN/ WHOSE SACRIFICE WAS ACCEPTED/ IN THE WARS OF/ 1914 - 1918/ AND/ 1939 – 1945/ THEY WENT TO WAR IN THE CAUSE OF PEACE/ AND DIED WITHOUT HATE THAT LOVE MIGHT LIVE."
The names of 14 fallen soldiers from the First World War are inscribed on the west face of the plinth, with the dates 1914 - 1918 above. The east face lists 16 names from the Second World War, with the dates 1939 - 1945 above.
Local climate
Holmer Green War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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