Lythe War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 2015. War memorial.
Lythe War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- broken-bronze-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Lythe War Memorial, St Oswald’S Church, Lythe Bank, North Yorkshire, YO21 3RW
- OS grid reference
- NZ 849 131
- Coordinates
- 54.5066, -0.6888
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lythe War Memorial is located at the top of Lythe Bank within the churchyard of St Oswald's Church, which is a Grade I listed building. The memorial features a 3-meter high octagonal limestone shaft topped with a heavily stylised four-sided lantern head that depicts Christ crucified, along with symbols of the Passion. The base of the memorial consists of a cuboid limestone plinth with a chamfered top edge, which rests on a simple, low, two-stage base. The plinth is inscribed on its first face with the words: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918." The second face lists names and commemorates "SEVEN UNKNOWN SAILORS BURIED AT LYTHE 1914-1918," with the inscription, "UNTO GOD'S GRACIOUS MERCY WE COMMIT THEM. THE LORD BLESS THEM AND KEEP THEM. THE LORD LIFT UP THE LIGHT OF HIS COUNTENANCE UPON THEM AND GIVE THEM PEACE BOTH NOW AND FOR EVERMORE AMEN." The third face reads, "REMEMBER THEM O GOD AND BRING THEM UNTO GLORY THROUGH THE SUFFERING AND DEATH OF THE CAPTAIN OF OUR SALVATION."
Local climate
Lythe War Memorial receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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