Seaham Colliery Disaster Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1985. Memorial.
Seaham Colliery Disaster Memorial
- WRENN ID
- pale-baluster-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Easington MP: Grahame Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1985
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Seaham Colliery Disaster Memorial, Garden of Rest, Christ Church, Station Road, Co Durham, SR7 0BH
- OS grid reference
- NZ 410 498
- Coordinates
- 54.84164, -1.36165
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Seaham Colliery Disaster Memorial is a colliery disaster memorial built in 1871 by stonemason W Robson of Seaham, designed in a minimal Gothic Revival style.
Constructed from sandstone, the memorial is located just outside Christ Church within a large walled enclosure, alongside the 1880 Seaham and Rainton Colliery Disaster memorial. It stands approximately 5.5 metres high and features a two-stage design. The lower stage consists of a slightly tapering, square stone pedestal set on a moulded base, topped with a cable-moulded, low-pitched pyramidal cap. The upper stage includes an enriched cross that rises above a tapering, octagonal spirelet adorned with a decorated collar.
On the east face of the pedestal, a recessed panel displays an inscription in incised black letters, which reads: "THIS MONUMENT IS/ ERECTED BY THE/ CONTRIBUTIONS OF/ THEIR FELLOW WORK/ MEN AND OTHERS/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ TWENTY-SIX MEN AND BOYS WHO WERE KILLED/ BY AN EXPLOSION AT/ SEAHAM COLLIERY,/ OCTOBER 25TH 1871/ AND WHOSE NAMES/ ARE INSCRIBED HEREIN." The names and ages of the deceased are inscribed on the north, south, and west faces of the pedestal.
Local climate
Seaham Colliery Disaster Memorial 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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