War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1983. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- steep-lime-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Gateshead Central and Whickham MP: Mark Ferguson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1983
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, Durham Road
- OS grid reference
- NZ 257 617
- Coordinates
- 54.94993, -1.59934
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial, located on the west side of Durham Road, was designed in 1921 by J W Spink of Kingston-on-Thames. It is a stone cenotaph featuring a square rusticated ground floor chamber that serves as a plinth for the main section. This main section displays a heroic-sized bronze relief of a classical warrior, framed in an Ionic order. Above the cornice and central pediment, there is a raised blocking course in two stages; the front part is plainer and higher, while the back part has a coved step and fasces moulding. The motto "ORS JANUA VITAE" is inscribed below the relief. The signatures of the sculptor R H Goulden and the founder A B Burton are also present.
Local climate
War Memorial receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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