Wallace Hartley Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Pendle local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 2015. Monument.
Wallace Hartley Memorial
- WRENN ID
- young-gargoyle-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pendle
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 2015
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Wallace Hartley Memorial, Wallace Hartley Monument, Off Albert Road, Colne
- OS grid reference
- SD 884 399
- Coordinates
- 53.85572, -2.1765
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wallace Hartley Memorial is a monument erected in 1915 by The Bromsgrove Guild. It features bronze statues set on a white Portland stone pedestal.
The memorial consists of a tall, square pedestal with a deep, moulded base. The four faces of the pedestal taper slightly inward and culminate in a moulded band, above which is a tall, concave-shaped base that supports a bronze portrait bust of Wallace Hartley. The bust depicts Hartley from the shoulders up, dressed in a jacket, waistcoat, shirt, and tie. Flanking the bust are two small bronze allegorical figures seated on the stone base. The figure on the left represents Music and holds a lyre, while the figure on the right represents Valour and holds a mask and a wreath.
The front face of the pedestal features a dedication in leaded lettering that reads: "WALLACE / HARTLEY / BANDMASTER OF / THE R.M.S. TITANIC / WHO PERISHED IN / THE FOUNDERING OF THAT VESSEL / APRIL 15TH 1912 / ERECTED BY VOLUNTARY / CONTRIBUTIONS TO COM- / MEMORATE THE HEROISM / OF A NATIVE OF THIS / TOWN." The pedestal is set on a plinth made of two steps formed of concrete blocks.
Local climate
Wallace Hartley Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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