Scotswood War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 2016. A C20 War memorial.
Scotswood War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- south-window-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West MP: Dame Chi Onwurah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Scotswood War Memorial, The Churchyard, St Margaret's Church, Armstrong Road, NE16 6AE
- OS grid reference
- NZ 198 642
- Coordinates
- 54.97205, -1.69159
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Scotswood War Memorial is a First World War memorial that was unveiled in 1921. Made from Creetown granite, the memorial stands approximately 2 meters tall and is located alongside St Margaret’s Church, overlooking Armstrong Road. It features a Celtic cross design, with the front face of the wheel-head and the upper part of the cross shaft adorned with carved interlace patterns and a hemispherical boss at the center of the cross arms. The cross shaft rises from a tapering pedestal, which is set on a two-stepped base.
The main dedicatory inscription on the lower part of the cross shaft reads: "IN/ GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THOSE MEN/ WHO WENT OUT FROM/ THIS LOCALITY, TO FIGHT/ AND FELL IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ FOR RIGHT AND FREEDOM/ 1914-1918/ IN THAT WHILE WE WERE/ IN PERIL/ THEY DIED FOR US." The names of those commemorated are inscribed on the faces of the pedestal and the risers of the uppermost step.
Local climate
Scotswood War Memorial receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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