Easington Colliery War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 May 2016. War memorial.
Easington Colliery War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- tangled-pediment-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Easington MP: Grahame Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 May 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Easington Colliery War Memorial, Easington Colliery Cemetery, Crawlaw Road, SR8 3NB
- OS grid reference
- NZ 431 441
- Coordinates
- 54.79008, -1.33007
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Easington Colliery War Memorial is located at the center of Easington Colliery Cemetery, south of the Easington Colliery Disaster Memorial. It features a version of Sir Reginald Blomfield’s Cross of Sacrifice, made from pale grey granite. The cross, which has a reversed sword in bronze, rises from an octagonal pedestal. This pedestal is set on a three-stepped, octagonal granite base, which is elevated by an additional two steps made from a different material.
On the front face of the pedestal, a wreath with ribbons is carved in low relief, enclosing the dedication "OUR/ GLORIOUS/ DEAD/ 1914-1918," with the years "1939 - 1945" below in attached metal figures. The names of the First World War service personnel being commemorated are inscribed on the remaining faces of the pedestal, while the names from the later conflict are listed on the faces of the two uppermost granite steps of the base.
Local climate
Easington Colliery War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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