Memorial to Huskar Pit Disaster is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1987. Memorial.
Memorial to Huskar Pit Disaster
- WRENN ID
- empty-lancet-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1987
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Memorial to Huskar Pit Disaster, By Wall on West Side of Churchyard of All Saints Church, High Street, Silkstone, South Yorkshire, S75 4JQ
- OS grid reference
- SE 290 058
- Coordinates
- 53.54866, -1.56349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Memorial to the Huskar Pit Disaster, erected in 1841, is made of sandstone. It is designed as a square block with a moulded cornice, set on a three-stepped podium and topped with a tall pyramid that features protruding gables on a square, chamfered base.
The front of the memorial displays a relief-carved swag of drapery above an inscription that commemorates a tragic event that occurred on July 4, 1838. The inscription details how a sudden influx of water into the coal pits claimed the lives of twenty-six individuals, whose names are recorded on the monument. It includes a solemn warning for readers to heed the calls of God.
On the right side, the names of fifteen boys are inscribed, along with their ages and the graves where they are buried, noting that two pairs of boys were brothers. The left side lists the names of eleven girls, their ages, and their burial locations, mentioning that one girl was a sister to one of the boys. Additionally, the four sides of the square chamfered base are inscribed with Biblical proverbs.
Local climate
Memorial to Huskar Pit Disaster receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% 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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