Whitehaven cenotaph is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 2018. Memorial.
Whitehaven cenotaph
- WRENN ID
- stony-groin-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 2018
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Whitehaven cenotaph, Whitehaven War Memorial, Castle Park, Flatt Walks, Cumbria, CA28 7RF
- OS grid reference
- NX 976 179
- Coordinates
- 54.54633, -3.58413
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Whitehaven cenotaph is a First World War memorial built in 1923, with an added inscription for the Second World War. It is made of Darley Dale sandstone and is situated just inside Castle Park, facing the main south-western entrance.
The cenotaph features a square column topped with a low pyramidal cap adorned with a wreath and additional wreath-foliage decoration at both the top and base. The south-western face, which faces the park entrance, displays a relief carving of a female figure holding a wreath, representing Peace. Above this figure, the inscription reads "TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD," and at her feet, the years "1914 – 1918" are noted. The base of the column flares out and rests on a shallow step inscribed with "LEST WE FORGET." Above this step, there is an added stone of a different color inscribed with "1939-1945." The memorial stands on a plain, uninscribed base, and the other three faces of the cenotaph are plain with no further inscriptions. The surrounding brick kerbing is a later addition and is not included in the listing.
Local climate
Whitehaven cenotaph sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,580 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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