War Memorial, 40 Metres West of Church of St Edmund is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1986. A C20 War memorial.
War Memorial, 40 Metres West of Church of St Edmund
- WRENN ID
- deep-bronze-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor MP: Alan Strickland (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1986
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- NZ 356 288
- Coordinates
- 54.6533, -1.44947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial, located 40 metres west of the Church of St. Edmund, is a First World War memorial built in 1920. It is made of sandstone and features green slate plaques. The structure has a square-plan pedestal that rests on a double-chamfered, stepped base. This pedestal supports a low octagonal section with a brattished top, corner broaches, and a raised central shield. Above this, there is a tapering octagonal shaft that also has a brattished cap and is topped with a shaped cross.
The front plaque, set into the pedestal, lists the names of the victims of the First and Second World Wars. A smaller plaque at the rear, which faces the church, bears the inscription: "PASS NOT THIS STONE IN SORROW BUT IN PRIDE, AND MAY YOU LIVE AS NOBLY AS THEY DIED. LORD GRANT THEM ETERNAL LIFE."
Local climate
War Memorial, 40 Metres West of Church of St Edmund 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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