Goole Zeppelin Air Raid Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 2015. War memorial.
Goole Zeppelin Air Raid Memorial
- WRENN ID
- eastward-gargoyle-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Goole and Pocklington MP: David Davis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Goole Zeppelin Air Raid Memorial, Goole Cemetery, Hook Road, DN14 5LU
- OS grid reference
- SE 760 243
- Coordinates
- 53.70965, -0.8496
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Goole Zeppelin Air Raid Memorial is a war memorial built in 1922, made of white marble with Portland stone curbs and a lectern, created by local monumental mason Mr. H O Tasker. It is located in the central circular plot of Goole Cemetery, facing north-west towards the entrance gateway. The memorial marks the six public graves of the victims of the Zeppelin raid, which are surrounded by very low curb stones and laid in slate chippings.
The memorial features a white marble open book on a low Portland stone lectern, raised on a stepped stone plinth. This is placed at the head of the grave within a rectangular enclosure also laid in stone chippings and surrounded by low Portland stone curbs with corner and centre posts. The pages of the memorial bear an inscription in lead letters that reads: "IN MEMORIAM. IN MEMORY OF THE SIXTEEN CITIZENS OF GOOLE, WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN A GERMAN ZEPPELIN RAID ON THIS UNDEFENDED TOWN ON THE 9TH AUGUST, 1915. ETERNAL REST GIVEN UNTO THEM, O LORD." Below this is a list of the names and ages of the deceased, which includes individuals ranging from a 6-year-old girl to a 74-year-old woman.
The upper riser of the plinth originally had an inscription noting that the monument was funded by public subscription, but this has weathered and is now unreadable.
Local climate
Goole Zeppelin Air Raid Memorial 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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