Halse War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 2016. War memorial.
Halse War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- crooked-doorway-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Halse War Memorial, Churchyard of the Church of St James, Church Hill
- OS grid reference
- ST 140 277
- Coordinates
- 51.04269, -3.22797
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Halse War Memorial is a First World War memorial that dates from 1918 and was altered after the Second World War. It is made of local stone and features a bronze plaque.
The memorial is designed as a plain Latin cross with chamfered arms and shaft, standing on a base of three roughly-hewn octagonal stone steps. This base is set on a wider octagonal platform with moulded edges. An angled stone is set into the base, to which the bronze plaque is affixed. The plaque is inscribed with the following text: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF LIEUT/ NEVILLE MONTGOMERY, 29TH BATTALION CANADIAN INFANTRY, YOUNGER / SON OF THE RECTOR OF THIS PARISH, / WHO FELL IN ACTION AT THE BATTLE OF LENS AUG 21 1917 / AND THE FOLLOWING FROM THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR," followed by the names of eight men lost during the First World War. It continues, "AND OF THE FOLLOWING FROM THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945," followed by the names of five men who died during that conflict.
Local climate
Halse War Memorial receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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