Goole Cenotaph is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 2015. Cenotaph.
Goole Cenotaph
- WRENN ID
- muted-oriel-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Goole and Pocklington MP: David Davis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 2015
- Type
- Cenotaph
- Address
- Goole Cenotaph, Bartholomew Gardens, Boothferry Road, DN14 6AL
- OS grid reference
- SE 738 239
- Coordinates
- 53.7072, -0.88293
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Goole Cenotaph is a war memorial located in a garden that was developed shortly after it was unveiled in 1922. It is modeled after the Whitehall Cenotaph and is constructed from Portland stone. The cenotaph stands 5.5 meters high and has a rectangular shape. At the top, there is a plain chest tomb that rests on a three-staged base, which is set back towards its upper section. Below this is a two-stage base that stands on three shallow steps.
On the front face of the memorial, the dates of the World Wars are inscribed as 1914 1919/ 1939 1945, with the words OUR/ GLORIOUS/ DEAD beneath. Carved laurel wreaths are positioned at the upper section of the shaft on either end. Unlike the Whitehall Cenotaph, this memorial features bronze plaques that display the names of those commemorated. These include plaques on each face of the base, a large rectangular plaque on the rear of the shaft inscribed PRO PATRIA/ (NAMES), a rectangular plaque on one side of the shaft inscribed HONOR/ (NAMES), and another rectangular plaque on the opposite side inscribed LIBERTAS/ (NAMES).
Local climate
Goole Cenotaph sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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