Memorial Shell Casing, Baltonsborough is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Memorial Shell Casing, Baltonsborough
- WRENN ID
- patient-vestry-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Memorial Shell Casing, Baltonsborough, Glastonbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 542 348
- Coordinates
- 51.1115, -2.65528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Memorial Shell Casing in Baltonsborough is a Grade II listed structure unveiled in 1922 and donated by the National War Saving Committee. It consists of a 15-inch BL siege howitzer shell casing that stands on a millstone with a circular concrete base, which was originally a brick base. The shell features two plaques: a bronze plaque on the front inscribed with "PRESENTED BY THE NATIONAL WAR SAVINGS COMMITTEE TO THE PEOPLE OF BALTONSBOROUGH TO COMMEMORATE THEIR NOTABLE CONTRIBUTION DURING GUN WEEK, 1918," and a brass plaque that reads "ROLL OF HONOUR/ 1914 - 1918/ IN HONOURED REMEMBRANCE/ OF THE MEN OF/ BALTONSBOROUGH/ WHO FOUGHT IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ ROYAL NAVY/ (NAMES)/ ARMY/ (NAMES AND RANK)," with the names of the fallen marked by a cross. In front of the memorial, there is a late 20th-century post and chain link fence and mid-20th-century metal gates, which are not included in the listing.
Local climate
Memorial Shell Casing, Baltonsborough 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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