Churchyard Cross and War Memorial, in churchyard, Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. Memorial.
Churchyard Cross and War Memorial, in churchyard, Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- keen-moulding-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Churchyard Cross and War Memorial, in churchyard, Church of St Nicholas, 3 Metres South of the Chancel, Holton
- OS grid reference
- ST 685 268
- Coordinates
- 51.0401, -2.45004
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Churchyard Cross and War Memorial, located in the churchyard of the Church of St Nicholas, is a 15th-century village cross that was restored as a war memorial after the First World War. It was further altered to include an inscription following the Second World War.
The memorial is made of stone and has a square plan. It features a Celtic-style cross with carved faces, which sits atop a tapering plinth that connects to the socket of the original village cross. On the eastern face of the socket, there is an inscription that reads, "THIS ANCIENT/ CROSS WAS RESTORED IN/ MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS/ PARISH WHO FELL IN THE/ GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918/ WHOSE NAMES ARE INSCRIBED/ ON THE TABLET IN THE CHURCH." The north face of the cross bears the inscription, "SECOND GREAT WAR/ 1939 - 45." The entire structure stands on a stone plinth.
Local climate
Churchyard Cross and War Memorial, in churchyard, Church of St Nicholas 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 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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