Wheatley Hill War Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 2017. War memorial.
Wheatley Hill War Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- sacred-plinth-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Easington MP: Grahame Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Wheatley Hill War Memorial Cross, Wheatley Hill Cemetery, Cemetery Road, DH6 3JZ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 377 387
- Coordinates
- 54.74224, -1.4158
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wheatley Hill War Memorial Cross is a granite memorial located outside the former mortuary chapel, now known as the Wheatley Hill Heritage Centre, at Wheatley Hill Cemetery. The memorial features a rough-hewn granite wheel-head cross that stands approximately 3.5 meters tall. A reversed sword is carved in low relief on the front face of the cross. The cross shaft rises from a tapering granite plinth, which has a principal dedicatory inscription on its front face that reads: "IN MEMORY OF THOSE OF THIS VILLAGE WHO DIED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918 ALSO 1939 – 1945." The plinth is set on a single granite step.
On either side of the memorial cross, there are two polished granite pillars that display the names of those commemorated. In front of the memorial, there is a square kerbed area filled with stone chippings, which includes a small stone inscribed with the words: "WHEN YOU GO HOME, TELL THEM OF US AND SAY – FOR YOUR TOMORROWS WE GAVE OUR TODAY." These additional structures are not included in the listing.
Local climate
Wheatley Hill War Memorial Cross sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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