Horsington War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 2016. War memorial.
Horsington War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- sombre-alcove-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- ST 698 244
- Coordinates
- 51.01843, -2.43138
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horsington War Memorial is a stone war memorial cross dating from the 1920s. It features a freestanding Latin cross with a tapering chamfered shaft, a square plinth, and a two-stepped octagonal base. The front face of the plinth is inscribed with the words: "IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 -1918" followed by names. The step below is inscribed with "1939 – 1945" along with names.
Local climate
Horsington War Memorial 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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