War Memorial in the Churchyard of the Church of St Bartholomew is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 2015. War memorial.
War Memorial in the Churchyard of the Church of St Bartholomew
- WRENN ID
- small-flue-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- ST 439 097
- Coordinates
- 50.88472, -2.79826
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial, erected around 1920, is located in the south-west part of the churchyard of St Bartholomew’s Church. It is made of carved stone and stands on a two-stepped octagonal platform. The memorial features a square pedestal that tapers and is chamfered to create an octagonal top. Above this, a tapered square shaft rises, topped with a pilgrim’s or Canterbury-style cross, which has the Chi-Rho symbol at its center.
The west face of the shaft includes four carved panels. The upper two panels display a Celtic knotwork design, while the lower panels feature a relief carving of St George and the dragon within a Classical arch. The bottom panel is inscribed with the dates 1914-1918 and 1939-1945. On the west face of the pedestal, there is a slightly recessed trapezium-shaped panel with the inscription: "TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD." Below this, in relief lettering, is the quotation: "SO HE PASSED OVER / AND ALL THE TRUMPETS SOUNDED / FOR HIM ON THE OTHER SIDE," which is identified as coming from the 17th-century work "Pilgrim’s Progress" by John Bunyan.
Local climate
War Memorial in the Churchyard of the Church of St Bartholomew receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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