Trull War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 2016. A Early 20th Century War memorial.
Trull War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-truss-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 May 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Period
- Early 20th Century
- Address
- Trull War Memorial, Churchyard of All Saints' Church, Church Road, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 215 221
- Coordinates
- 50.99376, -3.11868
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Trull War Memorial is a First World War memorial that was unveiled in 1920, with later additions to honor those who served in the Second World War. It is located in the south-west corner of the churchyard of the Church of All Saints, which is a Grade I-listed building.
The memorial is carved from Hamstone and features a medieval-style lantern cross with a canopied top that is ornately decorated with relief carvings, including the Crucifixion and the dove of peace, and is topped with crocketed finials. The lantern is set on a cruciform column that has a moulded capital and crocketed carving at its upper part. This column rises from a chamfered, square plinth that stands on a three-stepped, square base.
On the west face of the plinth, there is an inset panel that carries the main dedicatory inscription, which reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO DIED FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR." The names of the Fallen are carved on the panels on the north and south faces. A bronze plaque on the east face lists the five men who fell in the Second World War.
Local climate
Trull War Memorial 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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