Chilthorne Domer War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 2016. War memorial.
Chilthorne Domer War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- long-parapet-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- ST 524 193
- Coordinates
- 50.97194, -2.67802
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chilthorne Domer War Memorial is a stone structure located to the south of St Mary’s Church. It features a Celtic cross atop a square column and base, which stands on a square, tapered pedestal. The south face of the pedestal has an inscription honoring seven men who died in the First World War, stating:
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN / PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF / (NAMES) / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND / COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR. / 1914 – 1918.
The east face commemorates three men who lost their lives in the Second World War, with the inscription:
SECOND WORLD WAR / 1939 – 1945, / IN MEMORY OF / (NAMES).
The west face honors Lieutenant R W Madden of the Light Dragoons, who died during the Bosnian War in 1995, with the inscription:
KILLED IN THE CAUSE / OF PEACE.
Above the inscriptions on the west and east faces is a Latin cross, and each of the three inscriptions concludes with the quotation “THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE” from Ecclesiasticus 44:14.
Local climate
Chilthorne Domer War Memorial receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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