Lydeard St Lawrence War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 2017. War memorial.

Lydeard St Lawrence War Memorial

WRENN ID
floating-railing-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 2017
Type
War memorial
Address
Lydeard St Lawrence War Memorial, The Church of St Lawrence, Taunton, TA4 3SF
OS grid reference
ST 128 321
Coordinates
51.08207, -3.24563
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Lydeard St Lawrence War Memorial is a stone cross built in 1919. It features a square base and a sloping square plinth with recessed panels on each side. The tapering square shaft is topped with a boxed Latin cross. The front (east) face of the plinth has the inscription: "IN MEMORY OF THE FIVE PARISHIONERS WHO FELL, AND IN HONOUR OF THE 78 WHO FROM THIS PARISH SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1919." Below this, the base is inscribed: "ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF LYDEARD S. LAWRENCE, 1919." The south face of the plinth notes: "SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR 78." The west face has a recessed panel that reads: "IN MEMORY OF THE THREE PARISHIONERS WHO FELL AND IN HONOUR OF THE FIFTY THREE WHO FROM THIS PARISH SERVED IN THE WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945 (NAMES)." The north face is inscribed with (NAMES).

Local climate

Lydeard St Lawrence War Memorial receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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