The Charltons' War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 2015. War memorial.
The Charltons' War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- upper-moat-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- The Charltons' War Memorial, Ilchester Road, Charlton Mackrell, Somerton
- OS grid reference
- ST 531 287
- Coordinates
- 51.05614, -2.66947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Charltons' War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1930, with additional inscriptions added after the Second World War and in the early 21st century. It is constructed of coursed blue lias stone.
The memorial is set within a roughly triangular area enclosed by boundary walls, featuring a rectangular memorial wall. It has a two-stepped base topped by a slightly tapering monolith. The front (south) face of the monolith displays several inscribed stone plaques. The central plaque bears the inscription '1914/ 1918', with a brass lantern positioned in front of it. To the left, there is a plaque listing the names of men from Charlton Mackrell who lost their lives in the First World War, while to the right is a plaque for those from Charlton Adam. The lower section of the wall includes a central tablet inscribed with '1939-1945/ (NAMES)'.
The remembrance garden is bordered on the west, east, and south sides by coursed stone walls with stone coping. The entrance on the south side features low metal gates set between tall, square stone piers, each adorned with a stone crucifix in relief on the south face.
Local climate
The Charltons' 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 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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