Wellington Park War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 2015. War memorial.
Wellington Park War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- tattered-iron-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Wellington Park War Memorial, Courtland Road
- OS grid reference
- ST 134 206
- Coordinates
- 50.97842, -3.23464
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wellington Park War Memorial is a war memorial erected in 1921. It is located on a slightly elevated circular mound and is accessed by four stone steps on its north side, although a postcard from around 1925 indicates that the steps were originally on the west side. The memorial consists of a monolith made of roughly-hewn Cornish granite, which stands on a raised base that is also roughly-hewn. On the west and south faces of the memorial, bronze plaques display dedications in relief lettering: "TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD/ 1914-1918/ NAMES." Additionally, there is another bronze plaque that reads: "TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD/ 1939-1945/ NAMES."
The later 20th-century chain and link fence with wooden posts that surrounds the war memorial is not considered to have special architectural or historic interest and is not included in the listing.
Local climate
Wellington Park War Memorial receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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