Grendon War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 2016. War memorial.
Grendon War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-mortar-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Grendon War Memorial, Churchyard of St Mary's Church, Main Road, NN7 1JE
- OS grid reference
- SP 879 604
- Coordinates
- 52.23511, -0.71412
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Grendon War Memorial is a First World War memorial, dating from around 1920, with later additions for the Second World War. It features a cross approximately 4.5 meters high, with a floriated wheel head and an elaborately carved square-sectioned shaft made of sandstone. This cross is set on a two-stage square limestone plinth, which rests on a shallow square base. At each corner of the plinth, there is a low square vase.
The plinth bears the inscription: "IN MEMORY OF (names) MEN OF GRENDON, OUR GALLANT DEAD/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919," along with a quote from the Bible on the lower stage: "JESUS SAID, I AM THE/ RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE./ ST JOHN XI.25."
On one side of the plinth, there is an additional inscription: "ALSO/ IN MEMORY OF/ (names) WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1939-1945/ THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD."
Local climate
Grendon War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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