Catcott War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 2016. War memorial.
Catcott War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- half-glass-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- ST 394 394
- Coordinates
- 51.15067, -2.86776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Catcott War Memorial is a village monument dating from around 1920. It is constructed of limestone and features an elaborate, crocketed head with statues, set on an octagonal shaft. The memorial stands on a square base with a plinth that has two steps leading up to a platform and border.
The gravelled platform is surrounded by a kerb, which includes taller corner and centre stones. On the front of the base, there is an inscription that reads, "TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN GRATEFUL AND LOVING MEMORY / OF THE FOLLOWING MEN OF THE VILLAGE / OF CATCOTT WHO LAID DOWN THEIR / LIVES / FOR THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 - 1918." The reverse side bears the inscription, "THEIR NAME LIVETH / FOR EVERMORE," while the names of the fallen are inscribed on the sides. The steps of the plinth feature a projecting chamfered moulding at the top.
The shaft tapers to an octagonal upper body and rises to a richly carved band, above which is the elaborate head of the monument. This head has an angled drum adorned with decorative horizontal bands. Two niches contain sculptures of servicemen: a soldier facing west and a sailor facing east. The niches are framed by cusped heads with crocketed finials surrounding the drum, topped with a carved foliate knop. At the bottom of the shaft, the years "1939 * 1945" are engraved, along with the names of the fallen from that conflict.
Local climate
Catcott War Memorial receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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