War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1986. War memorial.

War Memorial

WRENN ID
hushed-pilaster-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 May 1986
Type
War memorial
Address
War Memorial, Kirknewton
OS grid reference
NT 915 302
Coordinates
55.56571, -2.13522
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The war memorial, built around 1919, is made of ashlar stone. It features a base consisting of two square steps and two larger square blocks that bear inscriptions. Above this base is a slender, tapering shaft with broach-stopped chamfered edges, topped with a moulded section and a foliated cross. One of the inscriptions on the second step reads: "God asked Britain's homes a costly sacrifice and these ungrudging paid the price."

Local climate

War Memorial receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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