War Memorial Outside St Marys Abbey is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 2006. War memorial.

War Memorial Outside St Marys Abbey

WRENN ID
second-corbel-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 February 2006
Type
War memorial
Address
War Memorial Outside St Marys Abbey, B6306, Blanchland
OS grid reference
NY 965 504
Coordinates
54.84841, -2.05481
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The war memorial outside St Mary's Abbey is a First World War memorial made of sandstone. It features a St. Cuthbert's cross with an ornamental head and a tall, slender tapering shaft. The shaft bears the inscription: "ERECTED/IN MEMORY/ OF/THE MEN OF/THIS /PARISH/WHO GAVE/THEIR LIVES IN/THE/GREAT WAR/1914 TO 1919".

The memorial is set on a plain rectangular plinth, which has the quotation "ALL THEY HAD THEY GAVE" on its front face. Below this, there is a two-stepped base. This simple memorial serves as a tribute to the fallen of the First World War.

Local climate

War Memorial Outside St Marys Abbey sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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