Bowness on Solway War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 2019. War memorial.
Bowness on Solway War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-chapel-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Bowness on Solway War Memorial, St Michael's Churchyard, Church View, Cumbria, CA7 5AF
- OS grid reference
- NY 223 626
- Coordinates
- 54.95231, -3.21414
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bowness on Solway War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920, with an addition for the Second World War. It is made of red granite and is located in the churchyard of the Grade II*-listed Church of St Michael, prominently positioned near the churchyard entrance and close to the main road. The memorial features a polished red granite Latin cross on top of a simple foot, which surmounts a tall four-sided plinth decorated with moulded and incised cap details, all resting on a two-stepped base. The plinth has inscriptions in incised and blacked lettering that read: IN/ MEMORY/ AND HONOUR OF/ THE MEN/ OF THIS PARISH/ WHO FELL/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918// (NAMES)// AND JOSEPH MILLAR WHO FELL IN THE SECOND GREAT WAR 1939 - 1945. The names of the fallen are listed on the left and right sides in order of first name.
Local climate
Bowness on Solway 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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