New Shildon War Memorial

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.