Finedon War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Finedon War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-chalk-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Wellingborough and Rushden MP: Gen Kitchen (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Finedon War Memorial, Junction of Wellingborough Road and Laws Lane, NN9 5LQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 917 718
- Coordinates
- 52.33709, -0.65529
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Finedon War Memorial is located on Wellingborough Road, a main thoroughfare in Finedon. It stands approximately 5 meters tall and is constructed from Weldon stone. The memorial is a square monolith featuring an out-sailing cornice and an ogee capstone. Atop the capstone is a small equal-armed cross, adorned with roses carved in low relief at the center and on the terminals of the arms. Each corner of the cornice is accentuated by small pinnacles.
Each face of the memorial displays a single word: COURAGE, ENDURANCE, PROWESS, and CHEERFULNESS. Beneath each word are two square blind panels, and below these, a large slate plaque lists the names of those commemorated. On the front face, below the plaque, an inscription on a slate tablet reads: "TO KEEP IN MIND THE/ GREAT WAR & THOSE/ FROM THIS PLACE WHO/ GAVE THEIR LIVES/ 1914 – 1919/ AND/ 1939 – 1945." The slate plaques were added around 1990 to replace the original, weathered rolls of honour.
The base of the monolith is supported by scroll buttresses angled at each corner, and it is raised on two square steps, surrounded by a small paved area. The memorial is situated in a long, narrow memorial garden alongside the road, which is enclosed by iron railings.
Local climate
Finedon 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 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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