Langley Park War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 2016. War memorial.

Langley Park War Memorial

WRENN ID
former-mortar-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 October 2016
Type
War memorial
Address
Langley Park War Memorial, Junction of Quebec Street and Front Street, Esh, DH7 9YH
OS grid reference
NZ 212 450
Coordinates
54.79946, -1.67083
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Langley Park War Memorial is located at the corner of Front Street and Quebec Street, enclosed by railings on a low kerb. The memorial is made of granite and features a large two-stage base that is square in shape. On this base stands a pedestal with scrolled angle buttresses. The pedestal supports a central section, also square in plan, which has corner columns that hold up an entablature and pediment adorned with corner pinnacles. Above the pediment is a domed octagonal drum topped with a wheel-head cross.

The main dedicatory inscription is on the front face of the pedestal, framed by the corner buttresses. It reads: "THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED/ BY THE INHABITANTS OF/ LANGLEY PARK/ TO THE EVERLASTING MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF THIS VILLAGE/ WHO NOBLY SACRIFICED THEIR/ LIVES, FOR THE CAUSE OF/ RIGHT, LIBERTY, JUSTICE, AND/ FREEDOM, IN THE GREAT/ EUROPEAN WAR," followed by "HE LIVES IN FAME THAT DIES IN VIRTUE’S CAUSE." The names of the commemorated individuals are inscribed on the other faces of the pedestal and on the central section of the monument, with the dates 1914-1919 and 1939-1945 carved beside wreaths.

Additionally, the base includes the names of soldiers who died in 1951 and 1973, and it commemorates an unidentified soldier buried in the local churchyard with the inscription: "AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER OF THE 1939 – 1945 WAR/ BURIED 6 JUNE 1940 IN THE ALL SAINTS CHURCHYARD/ KNOWN UNTO GOD."

Local climate

Langley Park War Memorial receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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