Cheddar War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 2015. War memorial.
Cheddar War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- moated-newel-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- ST 456 532
- Coordinates
- 51.27559, -2.78054
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cheddar War Memorial is a First World War memorial that was erected in 1920 and altered after the Second World War. It is made of stone and features gunmetal plates.
The memorial consists of a moulded wheel cross on a tapering hexagonal shaft, which has a moulded foot, all set on a high hexagonal plinth. Gunmetal plates are affixed to each side of the plinth, displaying the names of those who fell in the First and Second World Wars. The inscriptions on the plates read: "IN MEMORY OF / THE BRAVE MEN / OF / CHEDDAR / WHO FELL IN / THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1919 / DO THY DUTY / THAT IS BEST. / LEAVE UNTO THY GOD / THE REST." and "IN / HONOURED / MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF CHEDDAR / WHO GAVE THEIR / LIVES IN DEFENCE / OF FREEDOM / 1939-1945 / GREATER LOVE / HATH NO MAN / THAN THIS / THAT A MAN / LAY DOWN HIS LIFE / FOR HIS FRIENDS." The memorial stands on a three-stepped platform with an irregular hexagonal plan, located on a small triangular traffic island.
Local climate
Cheddar War Memorial receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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