Bromfield War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 2018. War memorial.
Bromfield War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- rough-cellar-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Bromfield War Memorial, Churchyard of the Church of St Mungo, Wigton, Cumbria, CA7 3NB
- OS grid reference
- NY 175 469
- Coordinates
- 54.81104, -3.28376
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bromfield War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920, located in the churchyard of St Mungo’s Church in Bromfield, Cumbria. It is prominently placed to the right just inside the churchyard entrance, next to the Greyhound Inn. The memorial features a wheel-head grey granite Celtic cross, which has knot work carvings on the head and upper shaft. Below, there are relief-carved inscriptions on the shaft, set on a sloped foot. The plinth also displays inscriptions in relief-carved lettering. The inscription reads: "TO THE/ GLORY OF/ GOD AND/ IN MEMORY/ OF THE MEN/ OF THIS PARISH/ WHO DIED FOR/ THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 1918/ (NAMES)."
Local climate
Bromfield War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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