War Memorial Adjoining South End of West Parapet to Pow Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1984. War memorial.

War Memorial Adjoining South End of West Parapet to Pow Bridge

WRENN ID
hollow-spindle-moss
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1984
Type
War memorial
OS grid reference
NX 970 120
Coordinates
54.49292, -3.59141
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The war memorial, located at the south end of the west parapet of Pow Bridge, commemorates those who served in the First World War. It consists of a stone wall approximately 3 feet high with a flat coping surrounding the rear of an elliptical bay. The tapered end piers feature pyramidal tops adorned with wreaths on the front, which enclose the dates 1914 on the left pier and 1918 on the right. On either side of a square central plinth, about 6 feet high and inscribed with the names of the fallen, there are stone benches supported by brackets. The memorial is topped with a life-size stone statue of St George standing over the body of a dragon.

Local climate

War Memorial Adjoining South End of West Parapet to Pow Bridge 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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