Crawshawbooth War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 2018. A 20th century War memorial.
Crawshawbooth War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- dark-chapel-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Crawshawbooth War Memorial, Land at the Junction of Burnley Road with Crawshaw Grange, BB4 8NQ
- OS grid reference
- SD 810 251
- Coordinates
- 53.72257, -2.2882
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crawshawbooth War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920 and relocated in 2010. It was created by HA Paley of Austin and Paley for the Brooks family and includes additional names from the Second World War. The memorial is made of buff sandstone and has a hexagonal shape, standing on three hexagonal steps.
The design features a fleury cross with a laurel-wreath wheel-head and a slender, tapering, chamfered shaft. The hexagonal base is decorated with blind tracery. Each side of the base has a panel framed by columns and a cusped round arch, with an inscribed band above that rises from a chamfered plinth. The band is inscribed in relief with Gothic lettering, which reads:
THEY COUNTED/ NOT THEIR LIVES/ DEAR UNTO/ THEMSELVES -/ THEIR REWARD/ IS SURE
Four of the panels display carved inscriptions in relief, listing the names of 24 Fallen soldiers in alphabetical order, with six names on each panel. Some names are worn and difficult to read. One panel features a relief carving of a garlanded laurel wreath, while another panel bears the carved dedication in relief, which reads:
ERECTED/ IN HONOUR OF/ THE MEMBERS OF/ ST: JOHN’S CH:/ WHO FELL/ IN THE WAR/ 1914 – 1918
Beneath this dedication, the upper face of the plinth is incised with the dates of the Second World War. The other five faces of the memorial display the names of nine Fallen soldiers from that conflict, also listed in alphabetical order.
Local climate
Crawshawbooth 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 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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