War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. War memorial.

War Memorial

WRENN ID
crooked-pilaster-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
War memorial
Address
War Memorial, Stanhope
OS grid reference
NY 884 379
Coordinates
54.73644, -2.18024
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The war memorial in Stanhope, known as St. John's Chapel War Memorial, was created around 1919 by Beattie and Co. from Carlisle. It is made of white marble and stands 2 meters high. The memorial features a square pedestal that supports a life-size figure of a soldier, who is depicted with his hands resting on a rifle and his head bowed. The inscriptions on the memorial commemorate the dead from the Great War and the Second Great War, as well as the seven airmen who lost their lives at Green Laws in 1943.

Local climate

War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 70 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 49 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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