Buckingham War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 2017. War memorial. 2 related planning applications.
Buckingham War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- bitter-barrel-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Buckingham War Memorial, Church of Ss Peter &Amp; Paul, Castle Street, MK18 1BS
- OS grid reference
- SP 694 338
- Coordinates
- 51.99839, -0.98931
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Buckingham War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920, designed by W Coles and constructed by J Coles. The memorial was updated to include remembrance details after the Second World War. It is made of Mansfield stone and is located in the middle of the access road to the north-east of the Church of SS Peter and Paul in Buckingham.
The memorial features a carved stone base that consists of a battered plinth over a two-stepped base. The plinth has four faces, each incised with remembrance mottos and the names of the fallen. The north face reads: "OUR GLORIOUS DEAD /THEIR NAMES SHALL /LIVE FOR EVERMORE /1939-1945," along with the names of 24 fallen soldiers. The south face states: "TO /THE GLORY OF GOD /AND /IN GRATEFUL MEMORY." The east and west faces each list the names of 48 fallen soldiers, commemorating a total of 120 individuals.
At the top of the plinth is a moulded square base adorned with carved foliation at the chamfered corners. Above this moulding, two decorative rings support an approximately 2-meter tall octagonal shaft that rises to a carved decorative collar featuring laurel-leaf carving. Above the collar is a stone cross, approximately 1.5 meters high and 1 meter wide. The cross shaft and cross-members are octagonal in profile, ending with carved octagonal shields that display foliage in relief. The cross is also supported at its center by an inset stone wheel.
Local climate
Buckingham 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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