Boer War Memorial, Approximately 75 Metres South of Overleigh House(Not Included) is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1991. War memorial.
Boer War Memorial, Approximately 75 Metres South of Overleigh House(Not Included)
- WRENN ID
- narrow-chapel-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1991
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SD 537 288
- Coordinates
- 53.75357, -2.7027
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Boer War Memorial, located approximately 75 metres south of Overleigh House, was erected in 1904 and designed by the sculptor T. Hodgkinson from Preston. This war memorial is made of grey granite, polished red and pink granite, and features bronze plaques. It has an obelisk shape, standing 25 feet high, and consists of two square steps made of unpolished grey granite, a short square pedestal of polished red granite with a moulded base and cornice, and an obelisk made of polished pink Scotch granite sourced from Peterhead quarries.
The bronze plaques display raised lettering and decoration. The plaque on the south side reads: "IN MEMORY OF / THE OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN / LOYAL NORTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT / WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE OF / THEIR COUNTRY / DURING THE / SOUTH AFRICAN WAR 1899-1902 / ERECTED BY THEIR COMRADES." The plaques on the other three sides list the names of those who served by Battalion. Originally, the memorial was located in the Market Place and was likely moved to its current site in 1926, coinciding with the erection of the Cenotaph.
Local climate
Boer War Memorial, Approximately 75 Metres South of Overleigh House(Not Included) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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