Buckland St Mary War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 2017. War memorial.
Buckland St Mary War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- ragged-rotunda-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Buckland St Mary War Memorial, Churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, South Somerset, TA20 3SW
- OS grid reference
- ST 270 134
- Coordinates
- 50.91566, -3.03868
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Buckland St Mary War Memorial is made of Doulting Stone, with the shaft and socket stone of the former village cross made from Ham stone. The octagonal shaft of the original cross rises from a squared base featuring round-headed corner mouldings. The shaft continues into work from around 1920, adorned with a band of nailhead decoration, and supports a tabernacle head that takes the form of a gabled cross, with a depiction of Christ to the west flanked by kneeling angels. The memorial is set on a two-stepped octagonal base from circa 1920. On the western face, there is a carved inscription that reads: ‘IN MEMORY / OF THE BRAVE MEN / OF BUCKLAND ST MARY / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1919’. A stone tablet recording the names of thirteen men who fell during the First World War is located to the north-west, while another tablet to the south-west commemorates two individuals lost during the Second World War. These tablets were added in 2011.
Local climate
Buckland St Mary War Memorial receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% 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 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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