Padbury War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 2016. Memorial.
Padbury War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- still-porch-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 2016
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Padbury War Memorial, Junction of Main Street and Old End, MK18 2AY
- OS grid reference
- SP 717 304
- Coordinates
- 51.96818, -0.95744
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Padbury War Memorial is located at the junction of Main Street and Old End, near several other Grade II-listed buildings such as Ivy Farmhouse, Vine Cottage, 7 and 8 Old End, and Everley. This memorial features a tapering, rough-hewn granite obelisk that is square in shape and approximately 2 meters high. It stands on a square plinth that is raised on one step.
The centers of all four sides of the plinth have been inset and smoothed, with each face displaying names or dedications in applied black-painted metal letters. The main dedication on the north-west face reads: "ERECTED BY PUBLIC/ SUBSCRIPTION IN MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF THIS VILLAGE/ WHO DIED IN DEFENCE OF/ THEIR KING AND COUNTRY./ 1914 - 1918." The names of the fallen are inscribed on the south-east face, listed in order of rank along with initials and surnames.
The north-east face features the biblical quotation: "THEREFORE SHALL THEY/ RECEIVE A GLORIOUS/ KINGDOM AND A BEAUTIFUL/ CROWN FROM THE LORD'S/ HAND," while the south-west face bears the inscription: "THINE, O LORD, IS THE/ GREATNESS, AND THE/ POWER, AND THE GLORY,/ AND THE VICTORY."
The memorial is surrounded by iron railings that create a small square enclosure.
Local climate
Padbury 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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