Cumwhinton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Cumwhinton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- standing-bonework-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Cumwhinton War Memorial, Adjacent to St Johns Hall, B6263, Cumbria, Wetheral, CA4 8ER
- OS grid reference
- NY 450 527
- Coordinates
- 54.86678, -2.85738
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cumwhinton War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1922, located within a semi-circular walled enclosure adjacent to St John’s Hall on the north side of the B6263 in Cumwhinton, Cumbria. The memorial is prominently positioned facing the main road. It features an infilled wheel-head polished Aberdeen granite cross, which has relief-carved bosses at the head, set on a tapering shaft and a tapering four-sided plinth. This is enclosed by a cairn made of rough-hewn irregular stones.
The memorial stands within a stone-walled semi-circular enclosure that includes a low stone wall along the roadside, topped with metal railings. The entrance consists of a pair of stone-capped piers and a metal gate. The lower shaft and plinth display inscriptions in leaded lettering, which read: "IN/ MEMORY/ OF/ (NAMES)/ WHO WERE KILLED/ IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914 1919// 1914 AND OF THESE MEN WHO ALSO SERVED 1919/ (NAMES)/ “THEY WERE A WALL UNTO US/ BOTH BY NIGHT AND DAY”/1. SAM.XXIV.16// 1939-1945/ (NAME)/ KILLED IN ACTION 1942.// J W Reed/ Newcastle."
Local climate
Cumwhinton 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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