Boer War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. Memorial.
Boer War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- upper-barrel-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Boer War Memorial, Belgrave Square
- OS grid reference
- SD 692 221
- Coordinates
- 53.69468, -2.46746
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Boer War Memorial, erected to commemorate the South African War of 1899-1902, is located in Belgrave Square, Darwen. It is constructed from ashlar stone and features a bronze plaque and sculpture. The memorial consists of an elongated pedestal with a moulded plinth and rounded corners, topped with a tapered moulding. Atop this pedestal stands a roaring lion, with one paw resting on a ball. The plaque includes an inscription stating that the memorial was erected by the Mayor "in remembrance of all the Darwen men who fell," listing 14 names, along with the phrase "Theirs not to reason why / Theirs but to do and die." It also commemorates the services voluntarily rendered by 50 townsmen, with the inscription "Honour the Brave." The memorial is surrounded by curved and ramped iron railings, which are set between four carved stone piers in a low curved wall.
Local climate
Boer War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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