Heighington War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Heighington War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- unlit-stronghold-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Heighington War Memorial, The Churchyard, St Michael's Church, the Green, Heighinton, DL5 6PN
- OS grid reference
- NZ 248 223
- Coordinates
- 54.59542, -1.61634
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Heighington War Memorial is a granite Celtic cross approximately 4 meters tall, located at the southern edge of the churchyard of the Church of St Michael, which is a Grade I-listed building. It is positioned near several other listed structures and overlooks The Green. The front face of the cross features intricate relief carvings, including hemispherical bosses on the wheel-head and scrolling vines along the shaft. The shaft rises from a tapering pedestal that bears the inscription "THE WOMEN’S/ THANKOFFERING 1918."
The pedestal is set on a three-stepped base made from a different type of stone. The lower steps are integrated into the churchyard wall, which has a small metal grill closing the gap. The top step of the base displays details of the Second World War, with the dates 1939 – 1945 inscribed on the chamfered tread and ten names listed on the riser. An inscription on the riser of the middle step reads “WE WILL REMEMBER THEM,” while the bottom step features the word "PAX" on its riser.
Two stone plaques are embedded in the churchyard wall on either side of the gap. The left plaque lists the names from 1914 – 1918 (9 NAMES), and the right plaque also lists names from 1914 – 1918 (8 NAMES).
Local climate
Heighington War Memorial receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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