Creech St Michael War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 2016. War memorial.
Creech St Michael War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- final-balcony-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Creech St Michael War Memorial, St Michael's Church, Bull Street
- OS grid reference
- ST 274 252
- Coordinates
- 51.02237, -3.0363
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Creech St Michael War Memorial is a First World War memorial that was built in 1922, with additional inscriptions added after the Second World War. The memorial is made from granite and features a Celtic-style wheel cross mounted on a square plinth that has a two-stepped base. It stands on a square slab. The front (east) face of the plinth is inscribed with the words: "TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN/ OF THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE/ GREAT WAR 1914-1918./ (NAMES)." Just below this, on the upper step, is the inscription: "SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1949./ (NAMES)."
Local climate
Creech St Michael War Memorial receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% 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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