Kingston St Mary War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 2015. War memorial.
Kingston St Mary War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- tangled-pinnacle-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Kingston St Mary War Memorial, Churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Church Street, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 222 296
- Coordinates
- 51.06106, -3.1104
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kingston St Mary War Memorial is a First World War memorial, likely built in the early 1920s, with an additional inscription added after the Second World War. It is made of dressed granite and is located within the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin church. The memorial takes the form of a Latin cross, featuring a stone sword in relief on the shaft. It stands on a square plinth with broach stops, which is supported by an octagonal three-stepped base. On the front (south) face of the plinth, there is a lead plaque inscribed with: "IN GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF/ KINGSTON/ WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919." The other sides of the plinth display plaques recording the names of the Fallen. Additionally, the upper step of the base has another plaque inscribed: "AND/ IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR/ 1939-1945/ NAMES."
Local climate
Kingston St Mary War Memorial receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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