St Patrick's Congregation War Memorial, Dipton is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 2015. War memorial.
St Patrick's Congregation War Memorial, Dipton
- WRENN ID
- second-casement-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- St Patrick's Congregation War Memorial, Dipton, St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, North Road, DH9 9BB
- OS grid reference
- NZ 161 535
- Coordinates
- 54.87642, -1.75058
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Patrick's Congregation War Memorial in Dipton is a Grade II listed Portland stone memorial in the form of a Celtic cross, located on the lawn in front of St Patrick’s Church and Presbytery. The cross features a figure of Christ at the center of its head, with the front face of the cross arms and shaft adorned with intricate interlace patterns carved in relief. The shaft is supported by a tapered, square plinth, which stands on a three-stepped, square base.
The front face of the plinth has an inscription that reads, “I HAVE FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT, I HAVE FINISHED/ MY COURSE. I HAVE KEPT THE FAITH”./ II TIMOTHY IV.7/ OF YOUR CHARITY PRAY FOR THE SOULS OF/ FIFTY ONE MEN OF ST PATRICK’S CONGREGATION/ WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR OF/ 1914 – 1919. The names of those commemorated are listed alphabetically on the rear of the cross shaft.
Local climate
St Patrick's Congregation War Memorial, Dipton receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% 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 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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