War Memorial in Vivary Park is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. War memorial.
War Memorial in Vivary Park
- WRENN ID
- western-lime-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial in Vivary Park, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 227 241
- Coordinates
- 51.01146, -3.10298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial in Vivary Park was created around 1920 by I F Shellard. It stands 26 feet high, located slightly south of the entrance gates. The memorial features a granite cenotaph that is sheltered by a domed baldachino made of ashlar blocks, all resting on a stepped plinth. The dome is supported by Doric columns. The names of the fallen are inscribed on the cenotaph, which has an inscription on the base that reads: "The Great War 1914-1918. In Grateful Memory of Taunton's Glorious Dead," and on the rear: "Our Land Inviolate, Your Monument."
This memorial is part of a group of listed buildings in Vivary Park and Mount Street, which includes the School, Unitarian Chapel, the Lawn, and Mary Street House in Mary Street, as well as Wilton House in Hammets Walk and Nos 1 to 14 (consecutive) Upper High Street.
Local climate
War Memorial in Vivary Park receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- Somerset and Wilts Savings Bank
- Entrance Gates and Gatepiers to Vivary Park
- Numbers 24a to 29 and Numbers 1 to 6 Vivary Apartments
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- 5, Upper High Street and wall to west
- 31a and 32, High Street
- Mary Street Memorial Schools
- Fountain in Vivary Park
- 33 and 33a, High Street
- 23, Mount Street