War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1987. Memorial.

War Memorial

WRENN ID
waning-forge-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 January 1987
Type
Memorial
Address
War Memorial, Edward Street, Stanley
OS grid reference
NZ 213 508
Coordinates
54.8522, -1.66952
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The war memorial in Craghead, dating from around 1919, features pink granite steps, a plinth, and a column, topped with a white marble statue. It has wide square steps leading to a tall square base and a tapered column that supports a tall square base for a life-size statue of an angel. The memorial includes Art Nouveau lettering with the years 1914 and 1919 in low-relief panels on alternate sides of the statue base. The names of the fallen from Craghead in the First and Second World Wars, along with mottoes, are inscribed in low-relief black letters on the base and plinth, with the words "CRAGHEAD" and "MEMORIAL" in recessed panels.

Local climate

War Memorial 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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