War Memorial at Queen's College is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 2016. War memorial.
War Memorial at Queen's College
- WRENN ID
- north-hinge-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- ST 217 230
- Coordinates
- 51.00177, -3.11619
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial at Queen's College is a First World War memorial, erected around 1920, with later additions for the Second World War. It is made of carved stone and features a Latin cross with an octagonal shaft and cross arm, which stands on a three-stepped octagonal base. The west and east faces of the second step of the platform are inscribed with ‘1914-1919’, while the north and south faces are inscribed with ‘1939-1945’.
Local climate
War Memorial at Queen's College receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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