Walton Memorial Circa 10 Metres South-West Of Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1988. Memorial.
Walton Memorial Circa 10 Metres South-West Of Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- quartered-quoin-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor MP: Alan Strickland (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1988
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Walton Memorial Circa 10 Metres South-West Of Town Hall, DL17 8JL
- OS grid reference
- NZ 287 328
- Coordinates
- 54.68954, -1.55476
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Walton Memorial, located about 10 metres south-west of the Town Hall, is a memorial to William Walton, erected around 1906 by stonemason R Swinburne. Made of sandstone ashlar, the memorial features an Art Nouveau design. It consists of the base of a fluted obelisk supported by four central leaf-decorated scrolls, with the tapering obelisk being an early 21st-century replacement. The memorial stands on a high corniced and panelled pedestal that includes a moulded plinth and scrolled, foliate diagonal corner buttresses. Each diagonal buttress ends in an impost moulding with arched recessed panels. The south side of the memorial bears an inscription in Gothic sans serif and Roman scripts, which reads: ERECTED / BY THE / OFFICIALS AND WORKMEN / OF THE DEAN AND CHAPTER COLLIERY / To the Memory / OF THE LATE/ WILLIAM WALTON / (OVERMAN) / WHO SACRIFICED HIS LIFE / IN SAVING THE LIVES / OF TWO BOYS / AT DEAN BANK / AUGUST 8TH 1906.
Local climate
Walton Memorial Circa 10 Metres South-West Of Town Hall receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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