Witherslack War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 2018. War memorial.
Witherslack War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- small-window-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Witherslack War Memorial, Churchyard of the Church of St Paul, Church Road, Cumbria, Meathop and Ulpha, Westmorland and Furness, LA11 6RS
- OS grid reference
- SD 431 841
- Coordinates
- 54.2502, -2.87397
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Witherslack War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1921, located in the churchyard of the Church of St Paul on Church Road in Witherslack, Cumbria. It is prominently positioned near the church tower. The memorial features a 3.6-meter tall wheel-head granite cross that stands on a tapering, four-sided plinth with a two-stepped square base that has rough-hewn edges. The plinth is inscribed in leaded lettering, which reads: "IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/ THE MEN FROM THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN/ THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918/ (NAMES)/ THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE/ ECCLUS XLIV 14// 1939 –1945/ (NAMES)."
Local climate
Witherslack War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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