Pitminster War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 2016. War memorial.
Pitminster War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- winding-zinc-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- ST 211 176
- Coordinates
- 50.95276, -3.12447
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pitminster War Memorial is a stone cross built in the 1920s. It stands on a square, two-stepped base, with each corner featuring a cut-back design for a knotted ball sculpture. The cross shaft is square in shape with curved faces and is intricately carved with entasis. At the top, it is adorned with a wheel cross. The memorial is surrounded by a fence made of concrete posts and steel rails.
On the south face of the memorial, there is an inscription that honors the men of Pitminster who sacrificed their lives during the First World War from 1914 to 1919. The text reads: "O LORD OF LANDS TO THEE WE GIVE/ OUR PRAYER, OUR HOPES, OUR SERVICE FREE/ FOR THEE THY SONS SHALL NOBLY LIVE/ AND AT THY NEED SHALL DIE FOR THEE." The north face bears an inscription commemorating the parishioners of Pitminster and Angersleigh who lost their lives in the Second World War from 1939 to 1946.
Local climate
Pitminster War Memorial receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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