War Memorial, Cross and Enclosing Walls Approximately 40 Metres North of Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
War Memorial, Cross and Enclosing Walls Approximately 40 Metres North of Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- dim-oriel-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SD 496 795
- Coordinates
- 54.20952, -2.7733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial, cross, and enclosing walls are located approximately 40 meters north of the Church of St Michael in Beetham. The memorial commemorates those who served in the First World War, with an inscription dated 1914-1919. It features a sandstone cross set on sandstone steps, with limestone walls that have sandstone dressings and a copper plaque. The cross is designed in a Celtic style, with a tapering rectangular shaft on a stepped, battered plinth, topped by a wheel-head cross that includes a central annunciating angel holding a lily. The enclosing walls curve towards the entrance and are approximately 400 mm high, featuring a plinth, coping, rectangular balustrades, and elliptical end stops. The rear wall to the south has a moulded cornice and a central memorial tablet, which is topped by a carved stone wreath with ribbons that display the date. A later plaque has been added below to commemorate the Second World War, 1939-45.
Local climate
War Memorial, Cross and Enclosing Walls Approximately 40 Metres North of Church of St Michael sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 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 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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