Crosscanonby War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Memorial.
Crosscanonby War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- roaming-quartz-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Crosscanonby War Memorial, Churchyard of the Church of St John the Evangelist, Cumbria, CA15 6SJ
- OS grid reference
- NY 069 390
- Coordinates
- 54.73742, -3.44697
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crosscanonby War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920, located in the churchyard of the Church of St John in Crosscanonby, Cumbria. It is prominently positioned near the churchyard lychgate, along the path leading to the church. The memorial features a wheel-head cross with a diagonally down-pointed sword and sword belt carved in relief, set on a tiered moulded foot atop a tall four-sided plinth with a cornice and two-tiered base. The plinth displays inscriptions in leaded lettering.
The inscription reads: "THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1919/ THESE DIED IN WAR/ THAT WE IN PEACE MIGHT LIVE/ THESE GAVE THEIR BEST/ SO WE OUR BEST SHOULD GIVE/ NOT FOR THEMSELVES/ FOR JUSTICE, FREEDOM, RIGHT/ THEY FOUGHT, AND BID/ US FORWARD TO THE FIGHT// IN/ UNDYING MEMORY OF/ (NAMES)// AND OF/ (NAMES)// THE/ WORLD WAR/ 1939 – 1945/ (NAMES)."
Local climate
Crosscanonby War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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