Lowca War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Lowca War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- eternal-merlon-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Lowca War Memorial, Junction with West Croft Terrace at High Lowca, Cumbria, CA28 6QN
- OS grid reference
- NX 983 216
- Coordinates
- 54.57991, -3.57494
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lowca War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920, located on a roadside green at High Lowca, where it meets West Croft Terrace in Lowca, Cumbria. It is prominently positioned by the main north-south road through the village. The memorial features a light grey granite column with vertical incised flutings, which stands on a moulded pedestal adorned with a cornice and carved wreaths at the top. Below the wreaths are leaded names of the fallen, and the column rests on a moulded three-tiered base that displays a carved crossed rifle and sword on the front face. The column is topped with acanthus carvings. A recent stone tablet, added in 2008, marks the memorial's relocation.
The inscription, in leaded lettering, reads: "ERECTED BY/ THE INHABITANTS OF LOWCA/ TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918/ (NAMES)// 1939 – 1945/ (NAMES)// THIS MEMORIAL WAS RE-SITED/ THE 22ND SEPTEMBER 2008/ BY THE PEOPLE OF LOWCA."
Local climate
Lowca War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,560 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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