New Brancepeth War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 2016. War memorial.
New Brancepeth War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- burning-jamb-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- New Brancepeth War Memorial, New Brancepeth Village Hall, Rock Terrace, Brandon and Byshottles, DH7 7EP
- OS grid reference
- NZ 226 416
- Coordinates
- 54.76944, -1.64946
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The New Brancepeth War Memorial is approximately 6.5 meters tall and is located in front of New Brancepeth Village Hall, which was formerly the Miners’ Institute and is not listed. The memorial is made of polished red granite and features a two-stage square base. From this base rises a central pier, with a column at each corner. These columns support a pedimented and pinnacled top of the pier, which is topped by a domed drum that holds a draped urn.
The names of those commemorated are inscribed on the faces of the central pier. At the base of the pier, the inscription reads: "ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 BELONGING TO NEW BRANCEPETH," with the letters incised and gilded. Additionally, there is an inscription for the Second World War in black lettering, which states: "ALSO IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945," with the names of the commemorated listed below on the upper stage of the base.
Local climate
New Brancepeth War Memorial receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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