Wiveliscombe Memorial Recreation Park Obelisk and Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 2016. Memorial. 1 related planning application.
Wiveliscombe Memorial Recreation Park Obelisk and Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- winding-bailey-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 2016
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Wiveliscombe Memorial Recreation Park Obelisk and Drinking Fountain, The Memorial Recreation Ground, West Road, TA4 2TA
- OS grid reference
- ST 077 277
- Coordinates
- 51.04184, -3.31692
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wiveliscombe Memorial Recreation Park features a commemorative obelisk that is approximately 3 meters high, with a square section that tapers towards the top. It is made of coursed, rusticated Old Red Sandstone, which was quarried in Ford, located about a mile northeast of Wiveliscombe. The obelisk stands on a two-stage stepped base. Beneath the memorial, there is a tin containing contemporary objects. The obelisk has two stone tablets with inscriptions: the first panel states that this war memorial recreation ground was opened on 3rd June 1920 and was provided by public subscription from the inhabitants of Wiveliscombe. The second panel honors the memory of the men of Wiveliscombe who fell in the Great War from 1914 to 1918.
Additionally, there is a drinking fountain, which is an octagonal structure resembling a font, made from the same type of stone, located about 20 meters to the east of the obelisk.
Local climate
Wiveliscombe Memorial Recreation Park Obelisk and Drinking Fountain receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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