The Yeovil First World War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. Memorial. 2 related planning applications.
The Yeovil First World War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- iron-step-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1983
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- The Yeovil First World War Memorial, High Street, BA20 1RG
- OS grid reference
- ST 556 159
- Coordinates
- 50.94156, -2.63234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Yeovil First World War Memorial is a commemorative monument built around 1920. It is made of ham stone and designed in the style of a 14th-century cross, with a hexagonal shape. The memorial stands on a four-stepped hexagonal base, featuring low granite bollards at each corner. Between the angle buttresses, there are pointed arched cusped panels on each face, which include inlaid bronze plaques that display a general inscription and the names of those who died in the war. The first stage of the monument is topped with a band of quatrefoil decoration and is surmounted by crenellation. The second stage has more cusped arched panels set under gablets, with crocketted pinnacles at the corners and additional freestanding pinnacles. The third stage is smaller but similar, with attached corner pinnacles, a band course, and a termination that features a crocketted spirelet topped with an open stonework cross. The memorial stands approximately 6 metres high overall. In addition to its significance as a war memorial, it is an important feature of the street scene in The Borough.
Local climate
The Yeovil First World War Memorial receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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