Woodland War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 2017. War memorial.
Woodland War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- lunar-bastion-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Woodland War Memorial, Woodland Cemetery, B6282, Bishop Auckland, DL13 5RN
- OS grid reference
- NZ 068 263
- Coordinates
- 54.63197, -1.89591
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Woodland War Memorial is located in front of the chapel at Woodland Cemetery. It consists of a tall stone pillar topped with a simple capstone, which rises from a two-stepped base. This base is set on the corniced top of a broad plinth, which itself stands on a three-stepped base.
A bronze panel is affixed to the recessed front of the plinth. The panel is designed to resemble a triple arcade in an ashlar wall, featuring two medallions above the arch columns. The left medallion displays the date 1914, while the right medallion shows 1919. The three round-headed arches bear the main dedicatory inscription, which reads: "ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE / MEN OF WOODLAND VILLAGE AND DISTRICT WHO SERVED / IN THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR."
The names of those commemorated are listed beneath the arches. At the bottom of the bronze panel, an inscription states: "FOR THE WORSHIP OF GOD AND THE BENEFIT OF THIS LAND BE STEADFAST AND LASTING IN ALL THINGS WITHOUT END / AND I COMMAND ALL TRUE MEN TO HELP EACH OTHER RIGHT FOR TO DO AND RIGHT FOR TO RECEIVE."
Local climate
Woodland War Memorial receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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