Waddington War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 2015. War memorial. 5 related planning applications.
Waddington War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- watchful-pediment-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Waddington War Memorial, Clitheroe Road, Clitheroe, Lancashire, BB7 3HP
- OS grid reference
- SD 729 437
- Coordinates
- 53.88933, -2.41365
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Waddington War Memorial is a stone Celtic cross dating from around the 1920s, situated in a paved area beside the brook that flows through the village. The brook's valley has been landscaped as Coronation Gardens, created for the 1953 coronation. The memorial is enclosed by metal railings and a gate, separated from the gardens, and screened from the road by low bollards with a chain.
The memorial consists of a large stone Celtic cross approximately 1.8 metres tall, featuring intricate carved interlace patterns. The cross rises from a plinth carved to resemble a rock outcrop, with inscriptions on its panels. The left panel reads: "THIS CROSS / WAS ERECTED / BY THE / INHABITANTS OF THIS / VILLAGE, / IN MEMORY OF / THOSE BRAVE MEN / WHO SACRIFICED THEIR / LIVES IN THE / GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1918 / THAT WE HERE / MIGHT LIVE IN / PEACE". The right panel lists eleven names, and the lower panel lists the names of four individuals who died in the Second World War (1939-1945). A low retaining wall surrounds a flower bed at the base of the plinth.
Local climate
Waddington War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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