Little Kingshill War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 2017. War memorial.
Little Kingshill War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- heavy-rubble-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SU 893 989
- Coordinates
- 51.68231, -0.7091
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Kingshill War Memorial is a First World War memorial that was unveiled in 1920. It is situated on the south side of Windsor Lane in Little Missenden and is constructed from mixed stock brick, stone, black knapped flint, and clay tiles.
The memorial features a decorative brick pillar topped by a gablet facing north-east. The brickwork is laid in a Sussex bond, with lighter and darker bricks arranged alternately on the front face to form a regular pattern. At the apex of the gablet, made of black knapped flint, there is a decorative terracotta roundel displaying the Latin motto PRO PATRIA in relief. A chamfered-brick string course encircles the monument at mid-height and at the base. The top of the memorial is capped with a single-pitched tiled roof, which has rounded tiles along the ridge-line.
On the front face, there are two rectangular stone tablets that list the names of the fallen. The upper tablet reads: "IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE MEN OF LITTLE KINGSHILL/WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR ENGLAND IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1919/(NAMES)." The lower tablet states: "AND IN THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945/(NAMES)." Below this tablet, there is an inset cross made of black knapped flint.
Local climate
Little Kingshill 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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