The Cenotaph is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 2003. A Interwar War memorial.
The Cenotaph
- WRENN ID
- long-grate-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 April 2003
- Type
- War memorial
- Period
- Interwar
- Address
- The Cenotaph, Castle Bank, Morpeth
- OS grid reference
- NZ 201 855
- Coordinates
- 55.16347, -1.68542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cenotaph is a war memorial located on Castle Bank in Morpeth, built between 1921 and 1922 and modified with additional plaques in 1946-47. It was designed by C Franklin Murphy and unveiled by Lord Joicey on October 1st, 1922. The memorial is constructed of moulded ashlar with bronze decoration and stands on a low paved plinth with an ashlar retaining wall.
The memorial has a square plan with low square projections at each corner. The stepped and moulded plinth features small bronze plaques that list the names of local men who died in the Second World War. The tall structure has two sunken panels on each face; the lower panels display large bronze plaques inscribed with the names of local men who died in the First World War. The upper panels on each face feature a stone cross in relief, adorned with a bronze laurel wreath. The entire memorial is topped with a bold moulded cornice that has prominent dentils.
Local climate
The Cenotaph receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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