Great Orton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. War memorial. 2 related planning applications.
Great Orton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-rampart-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Great Orton War Memorial, Churchyard of the Church of St Giles, Cumbria, CA5 6NW
- OS grid reference
- NY 328 543
- Coordinates
- 54.87907, -3.04763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Orton War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920, located in the churchyard of St Giles Church at Cross House Gardens in Great Orton, Cumbria. It is prominently placed near the entrance of the churchyard. The memorial consists of a roughly teardrop-shaped granite boulder with a bronze plaque attached to its smoothed front face, and a bronze cross affixed to its tip. This boulder rests on a two-tiered square base made of dressed sandstone blocks. At the corners of the first step, four black-painted shell cases serve as posts for chains that surround the monument.
The plaque features an inscription that includes the names of those commemorated and the crest of the Border regiment. The inscription reads: 4th AUG 1914 11th NOV 1918/ (NAMES)/ “QUAE POTUÉRE.”
Local climate
Great Orton 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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