Boy Scout War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Pendle local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 2015. War memorial.
Boy Scout War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- floating-spire-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pendle
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Boy Scout War Memorial, Memorial Square, Market Street, Nelson
- OS grid reference
- SD 858 379
- Coordinates
- 53.83737, -2.21609
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Boy Scout War Memorial is a structure commemorating Nelson scouts who died in the First World War, built in 1919 by Job Davies. It is made of buff-coloured Yorkshire grit stone.
The memorial features a carved figure of a Boy Scout in historic uniform, standing at attention on a tall, square pedestal that is set on a square plinth. The scout holds a tall staff in his right hand, with his left arm bent at a right angle across his body. He is dressed in a broad-brimmed hat, a long-sleeved shirt with a neckerchief and lanyard, shorts, knee socks with garters, and boots. A small hatchet is attached to the back of his belt. The base of the memorial is partially squared and inscribed with the words "BE PREPARED," and it has a rocky background.
The pedestal features relief-carved triangular pediments on each face, inset with decorative foliate panels. At the base of the pedestal, there is deep cyma reversa moulding with relief-carved acanthus leaves at the corners. The front face of the pedestal displays a laurel wreath flanked by a scrolled ribbon that is dated 1914 / 1919. The front face is also inscribed with "TO THE / Glorious Memory / OF THE / Nelson Scouts / WHO FELL IN THE / GREAT WAR." The left-side face bears the inscription "SACRIFICE," while the right-side face reads "FOR US." The pedestal is supported by a wide, square plinth.
Local climate
Boy Scout War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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