Muncaster War Memorial and area wall is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1985. War memorial.
Muncaster War Memorial and area wall
- WRENN ID
- lone-landing-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1985
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Muncaster War Memorial and area wall, A595, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- SD 090 966
- Coordinates
- 54.35755, -3.40085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Muncaster War Memorial is located by the roadside on the main road between Barrow-in-Furness and Gosforth, near Seascale, at the junction leading to the coastal village of Ravenglass. It features a war cross made of Lakeland granite, with a lozenge-shaped shaft that tapers into a rectangular plinth. The plinth carries the inscription "TO THE MEN OF MUNCASTER WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR." Below the inscription is a laurel wreath carved in relief, which is the only example of this feature among memorials designed by Lutyens of this type. The memorial stands on a base of three broad, square, shallow steps. It is set within a shallow, stone-walled recess, where the names of the fallen from both world wars are inscribed on blocks that are inset into the wall.
Local climate
Muncaster War Memorial and area wall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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