Kirkbride War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Kirkbride War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- idle-truss-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Kirkbride War Memorial, Churchyard of the Church of St Bride, Cumbria, CA7 5HR
- OS grid reference
- NY 229 573
- Coordinates
- 54.90454, -3.20311
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kirkbride War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1921, located in the churchyard of St Bride’s Church on Church Road in Kirkbride, Cumbria. It is prominently positioned near the entrance to the churchyard, close to the path leading to the church. The memorial features a approximately 2.5-meter high sandstone wheel-head Celtic cross, which is adorned with intricate relief knot work carvings on both the head and the tapering shaft. This cross stands on a cruciform plinth with a two-stepped base.
The plinth displays the First World War inscriptions in relief-carved lettering within a shield-shaped cutaway ground. Additionally, a small brass plaque at the base of the shaft commemorates the Second World War. The inscriptions read: "TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF/ (NAMES)/ ALL YOU HAD YOU GAVE/ 1914 – 1918// 1939 – 1945/ IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/ (NAMES)/ THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE."
Local climate
Kirkbride War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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