War Memorial at the Church of St Edward the Confessor is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 2018. War memorial.
War Memorial at the Church of St Edward the Confessor
- WRENN ID
- spare-pewter-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Outer MP: Mr Luke Charters (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial at the Church of St Edward the Confessor, Tadcaster Road, Dringhouses, YO24 1QG
- OS grid reference
- SE 587 497
- Coordinates
- 53.9402, -1.10632
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial at the Church of St Edward the Confessor is a First World War memorial built in 1922 by Walter Brierley, with later additions for the Second World War. It is made of Portland stone and is located within the churchyard, facing Tadcaster Road to the west.
The memorial features an elaborately carved lantern cross with a gabled canopy and pointed trefoil niches. The west-facing niche contains a sculpture of the crucified Christ, while the southern niche features St George and the Dragon, and the northern niche has a sculpture of St Edward the Confessor. The lantern is set on an octagonal shaft that rises from a four-sided, tapering plinth mounted on a square base made of quarry-faced stone with finely dressed quoins and capping.
The plinth carries inscriptions in incised lettering. The principal inscription on the west side is presented on inset panels and reads: "IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF THE MEN OF DRINGHOUSES WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR GOD AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918." Below this, the names of 29 men are arranged in two columns in alphabetical order.
The Second World War inscription is more simply presented, located on the south face, reading: "1939-45 (6 NAMES) LEST WE FORGET."
Local climate
War Memorial at the Church of St Edward the Confessor sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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