Rookhope War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 2016. War memorial.
Rookhope War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- seventh-finial-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 December 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Rookhope War Memorial, C20m West of Boltsburn Bridge, Stanhope, DL13 2BH
- OS grid reference
- NY 937 428
- Coordinates
- 54.78092, -2.09794
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rookhope War Memorial is a granite structure approximately 4.5 meters tall, located to the west of Bolt’s Burn. It features a wheel-head cross with a reversed sword carved in low relief on the front face. The cross shaft rises from a small pedestal that sits on a tapering plinth, which is elevated by a two-stepped base.
On the front face of the small pedestal, the main dedicatory inscription reads: "FOR HOME AND COUNTRY. ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN FROM THIS PARISH WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-18." The front face of the plinth is inscribed with "THOSE WHO FELL" followed by names, while the other three faces contain the inscription "THOSE WHO RETURNED" along with lists of names. Additionally, a small tablet on the lower step of the base bears a later inscription that reads: "IN MEMORY OF THE MEN WHO SERVED IN THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945 KILLED IN ACTION" followed by names. All inscriptions are made with applied metal letters.
Local climate
Rookhope War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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