Wingate Grange Colliery Disaster Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. Memorial.
Wingate Grange Colliery Disaster Memorial
- WRENN ID
- kindled-copper-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Easington MP: Grahame Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Wingate Grange Colliery Disaster Memorial, Front Street West, TS28 5AA
- OS grid reference
- NZ 399 370
- Coordinates
- 54.72729, -1.38079
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wingate Grange Colliery Disaster Memorial is a colliery disaster memorial built in 1907, designed by Douglas Crawford and sculpted by the Borrowdale Brothers of Sunderland.
This sandstone memorial stands approximately 4 metres high and takes the form of a faceted, tapering obelisk. It is set upon a corniced base that features scroll brackets at its bottom. Above this base is a pedestal with squared corners that frames convex panels on each side. The entire structure rests on a moulded plinth and a two-stepped base.
The front panel, which is partly illegible, bears the inscription: "THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED/ BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION/ TO THE MEMORY OF THE/ TWENTY SIX MEN WHO LOST THEIR LIVES/ IN THE EXPLOSION AT/ WINGATE GRANGE COLLIERY/ OCTOBER 14TH 1906. LET THEM REST FROM THEIR LABOURS." The east face of the pedestal is inscribed with the names "BORROWDALE BROS./ SCULPTORS/ SUNDERLAND./ DOUGLAS CRAWFORD/ ARCHITECT." The other faces of the memorial list the names of those who perished in the disaster.
Local climate
Wingate Grange Colliery Disaster Memorial 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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