War Memorial in New Seaham Welfare Park is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1985. A C20 War memorial.

War Memorial in New Seaham Welfare Park

WRENN ID
burning-arch-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Easington MP: Grahame Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 February 1985
Type
War memorial
Address
War Memorial in New Seaham Welfare Park, Park View
OS grid reference
NZ 408 499
Coordinates
54.84234, -1.36551
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The War Memorial in New Seaham Welfare Park is a memorial dedicated to those who served in the 1st and 2nd World Wars, built around 1920. It is made of sandstone and features commemorative tablets of grey granite. The memorial consists of a tall, two-stage square pedestal with projecting canted corners, set on a stepped and moulded base. The lower stage includes two tablets within moulded surrounds and a deeply coved cornice. The narrower upper stage has a single commemorative tablet, flanked by two slightly over-life-size figures of an infantryman and a sailor on canted corner plinths. At the top, the memorial is crowned by a winged female figure on a stepped and moulded base.

Local climate

War Memorial in New Seaham Welfare Park sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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