Dent War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 2018. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Dent War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- riven-cobalt-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Dent War Memorial, St Andrew's Churchyard, Main Street, Cumbria, Westmorland and Furness, LA10 5QL
- OS grid reference
- SD 705 870
- Coordinates
- 54.27808, -2.45425
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dent War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1921, with additions for the Second World War. It is constructed from ashlar limestone and features a wheel head cross on a tapering shaft, which is mounted on a tapering three-tiered plinth and a single-stepped square base. The memorial stands on a gravel bed that is enclosed by low kerbstones.
On the south face of the memorial, there are inscriptions in incised lettering on the first and second tiers of the plinth. The first tier reads: "IN HONOUR OF THE MEN/ OF DENT WHO FOUGHT/ AND IN EVER THANKFUL/ MEMORY OF THE MEN/ WHO DIED FOR GOD/ FOR KING, FOR HOME, FOR/ FREEDOM, PEACE AND RIGHT/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918." The second tier states: "THE IMMORTAL DEAD/ THESE DIED THAT WE AT PEACE MIGHT/ LIVE THESE GAVE THEIR BEST SO WE/ OUR BEST SHOULD GIVE. NOT FOR OUR-/ SELVES. FOR FREEDOM, HOME AND RIGHT/ THEY FOUGHT AND BID US FORWARD/ IN THE FIGHT/ SEE YE TO IT THAT THESE SHALL NOT/ HAVE DIED IN VAIN."
The side faces of the plinth are inscribed with the names of 19 individuals who fell in the First World War, while the names of four individuals who fell in the Second World War are inscribed beneath the date 1939-1945 on the east face of the plinth.
Local climate
Dent War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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