New Shildon War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 2016. War memorial.
New Shildon War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- deep-solder-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- New Shildon War Memorial, Redworth Road, DL24 2JJ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 232 255
- Coordinates
- 54.62423, -1.64215
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The New Shildon War Memorial is a 6.5-meter tall structure made of Heworth stone, located at the roadside opposite the Railway Institute and Forecourt Walls on Redworth Road. It features a small wheel-head cross that rises from the moulded collar of an octagonal cross shaft. This cross shaft is positioned on a square plinth, which in turn rests on a two-stepped base.
The main dedicatory inscription on the front face of the plinth honors "124 New Shildon men who laid down their lives in the Great War 1914 – 1918." It includes the lines: “Blow out ye bugles over the rich dead! There’s none of these so lonely and poor of old but, dying, has made us richer gifts than gold.” and “He that loseth his life shall find it – unto life eternal.” The names of those commemorated are inscribed on the other three sides of the plinth. Additionally, there is an inscription on the riser of the upper step of the base that reads "Joseph Leng, aged 7 years, drowned while visiting his father in France." All inscriptions are incised.
Local climate
New Shildon War Memorial receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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