Kirkby Stephen War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 2018. A C20 War memorial.
Kirkby Stephen War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- dim-obsidian-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Kirkby Stephen War Memorial, Market Square, Market Street, Cumbria, CA17 4QT
- OS grid reference
- NY 775 087
- Coordinates
- 54.47344, -2.34852
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kirkby Stephen War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920, located in the Market Square of Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria. It is prominently positioned at the center of the town. The memorial features a Lazonby sandstone cross pattée on a tapering shaft, set on an octagonal plinth and a three-tiered octagonal base. The plinth displays inscriptions on bronze panels with white-painted lettering. Plaques commemorating the Second World War were added around the uppermost riser edges of the tiered base. The inscription reads: TO/ OUR/ GLORIOUS/ DEAD/ 1914 – 1919// (NAMES)// 1939 –1945/ (NAMES).
Local climate
Kirkby Stephen War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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