War Memorial Circa 20 Metres West of Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1988. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
War Memorial Circa 20 Metres West of Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- calm-oriel-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor MP: Alan Strickland (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1988
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- NZ 287 328
- Coordinates
- 54.68961, -1.55489
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial, located approximately 20 metres west of the Town Hall in Ferryhill, was erected around 1919. It is made of granite and features a marble statue. The memorial has a square step leading to a rock-faced base of a tapered pedestal, which includes a plinth and cornice. Atop the pedestal is a statue of a Durham Light Infantry soldier depicted in a casual pose, with his hands clasped around the barrel of a rifle resting on the ground.
The inscription on the plinth begins with "To the Glory of God..." and honors the men of Ferryhill who died in the Great War from 1914 to 1918, with their names inscribed on all sides. An additional inscription commemorates those who served in the Second World War from 1939 to 1945, with further names included. The front plinth bears the phrase, "Pass not this stone in sorrow but in pride/And may ye live as nobly as they died."
Local climate
War Memorial Circa 20 Metres West of Town Hall receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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