Chewton Mendip War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 2012. War memorial.
Chewton Mendip War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- second-granite-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 2012
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Chewton Mendip War Memorial, Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Church Lane, BA3 4SW
- OS grid reference
- ST 596 531
- Coordinates
- 51.27583, -2.58054
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chewton Mendip War Memorial is a Grade II listed structure made entirely of Portland stone. It features an octagonal plinth with four octagonal steps. The memorial itself is designed as a cross, with octagonal terminals at the ends of the arms, set on a tapering chamfered shaft that has a chamfered and moulded socket.
On the east side of the plinth, three faces are inscribed with the words: 'TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF / THE OFFICERS AND MEN FROM THIS PARISH / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-19.' Below this inscription are the names and details of those who fell, which continue onto the steps beneath the plinth. The lower step also bears the inscription: “THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE,” alongside the names of those who lost their lives in the First World War.
The north-west and north-east faces of the plinth are inscribed with: 'ALSO OF THE FOLLOWING / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE / SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945;' below which are the names and details of two men who died in the Second World War.
Local climate
Chewton Mendip War Memorial receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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