Castle Cary War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 2015. War memorial.
Castle Cary War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- quiet-paling-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- ST 640 322
- Coordinates
- 51.08805, -2.51496
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Castle Cary War Memorial, built around 1920, honors those who died in both World Wars. It is made of granite with incised lead lettering.
The memorial is located on an island to the north-west of the horse pond, at the junction of Fore Street, Lower Park Street, and Ashby Place. It has a rectangular shape with a cross positioned above a plinth that rises from a stepped platform.
Facing north-west towards Ashby Place, the memorial features a cross with a wheel head and a tapered shaft. The plinth is designed as a rough-hewn rectangular boulder with a smooth, recessed panel on the front that reads ‘THE / GREAT WAR / 1914-1919’. Below this, there is an additional angled panel that states ‘1939 / TO / 1945’ in the center, flanked by the names of those who fell in the Second World War. The sides of the plinth have recessed smooth panels that list the names of those who died in the First World War.
Local climate
Castle Cary War Memorial receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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