Brent Knoll War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 2016. War memorial.
Brent Knoll War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- north-brass-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- ST 335 507
- Coordinates
- 51.25189, -2.95313
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Brent Knoll War Memorial is a war memorial erected around 1920. It is made of carved stone and is located to the west of the Church of St Michael. The memorial features a freestanding lantern cross that stands on a moulded octagonal platform. It consists of a three-stepped octagonal pedestal topped by a square base, which is carved to create an octagonal top. The shaft begins square at the base and is chamfered with broach stops to form an octagon, which then flares outwards above the annulet to support the lantern cross.
The lantern cross is adorned with decorative tracery-style and foliate carvings on each side. The east face features a relief carving of the Crucifixion of Christ, flanked by figures of the Virgin Mary and St John the Evangelist. An inscription carved in relief around the face of the top step reads:
1914-1918/ REMEMBER WITH THANKSGIVING/THE BRENT KNOLL/MEN WHO GAVE /THEIR LIVES IN/THE SERVICE OF/ THEIR COUNTRY.
The names of seventeen men who died are inscribed on the riser of the second step. The date ‘1939-45’ is carved on the east face of the bottom step, with the names of six men from the parish who died inscribed on either side.
Local climate
Brent Knoll War Memorial receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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