Aysgarth War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 2019. Memorial.
Aysgarth War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- veiled-cupola-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 2019
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Aysgarth War Memorial, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 3AD
- OS grid reference
- SE 003 884
- Coordinates
- 54.2916, -1.99608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Aysgarth War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in the early 1920s, with an addition for the Second World War.
Constructed from rough-hewn limestone and ashlar sandstone, the memorial features a circular plan. It consists of a pedestal topped with a small street lamp, supported by four decorative scrolled wrought iron struts. The structure is made of coursed rough-hewn limestone blocks, with an ashlar sandstone frieze, capstone, and plinth. It stands on a single-step circular stone base, raised on a circular podium with a gently inclined surface.
On the south side of the pedestal, a bronze plaque reads: "REMEMBER ALL WHO SHARED IN THE GREAT WAR THESE OF AYSGARTH GAVE THEIR LIVES" followed by three names. A secondary bronze plaque on the north side states: "THIS TABLET IS ERECTED IN GRATEFUL THANKS FOR THE SAFE RETURN OF ALL WHO SERVED FROM THIS TOWNSHIP IN THE SECOND GREAT WAR 1939 – 1945."
The capstone features a moulded cornice and is coned, with a flat upper surface for the lamp. It has four semi-circular projections aligned from the north-west to south-east and from south-west to north-east. Each projection has an inscribed letter that spells "THEY" when read anti-clockwise from the south-west side. The frieze is inscribed with the words "LIVE," "HEARD," "FELT," and "DIED," also read anti-clockwise from the west face. The plinth is inscribed with the years "1914 .1918."
Local climate
Aysgarth War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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