War memorial outside St George's Church, South Moor is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 2016. War memorial.
War memorial outside St George's Church, South Moor
- WRENN ID
- idle-cinder-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War memorial outside St George's Church, South Moor, South Moor Road, Lower Stanley, DH9 7EG
- OS grid reference
- NZ 190 514
- Coordinates
- 54.8571, -1.70469
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial is located outside the east wall of St George's Church. It features a large, elaborately-hooded Calvary with a timber cross shaft that displays a figure of Christ crucified, made from copper. The shaft is mounted on a stone pedestal, which sits on a three-stepped base.
Attached to the church wall is a large stone panel that holds three dark stone plaques. The central plaque contains the main dedicatory inscription, which reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF/ THE MEN WHOSE NAMES/ ARE HERE RECORDED WHO/ CHEERFULLY GAVE THEIR/ LIVES FOR FREEDOM AND/ THE ENGLAND THEY LOVED/ SO WELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1919/ THEIR RELATIVES/ HAVE ERECTED THIS TABLET/ AND ADJOINING CROSS./ 'ABOVE THE GRAVES OF HEROES/ THE WOODEN CROSSES GROW,/ WHO SHALL NO MORE SEE DURHAM,/ NOR ANY PLACE THEY KNOW,/ WHERE FELL TOPS FACE THE MORNING/ AND GREAT WINDS BLOW;/ WHO LOVING AS NONE OTHER/ THE LAND THAT IS THEIR MOTHER,/ UNFALTERING RENOUNCED HER/ BECAUSE THEY LOVED HER SO.' W.N. HODGSON." The names of those commemorated are inscribed on the two plaques flanking the central one.
Local climate
War memorial outside St George's Church, South Moor receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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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