Flookburgh War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 2018. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Flookburgh War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- lost-keep-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Flookburgh War Memorial, Churchyard of the Church of St John the Baptist, Station Road, Cumbria, Lower Holker, LA11 7JY
- OS grid reference
- SD 365 760
- Coordinates
- 54.17606, -2.97324
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Flookburgh War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1922, located in the churchyard of St John the Baptist Church on Station Road in Flookburgh, Cumbria. It is prominently positioned between the apse end of the church and the main road, making it visible from the road and adjacent to the churchyard paths. The memorial features a floriated cross approximately 4.5 meters tall, which has an ornate head and is mounted on a slender tapering shaft. The shaft is decorated with incised circular designs that spiral down its length, and it is topped with a moulded cap and foot. This stands on a circular plinth that displays inscriptions in relief-carved and incised lettering, all set upon a two-tiered base. The main inscription reads: "HONOUR TO THE MEN OF THIS/ PARISH WHO LAID DOWN THEIR/ LIVES THRO’ THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918/ THE PEACE OF GOD TO ALL WHO/ BY THEIR SUFFERINGS STROVE/ TO GIVE THEIR COUNTRY PEACE// (NAMES)."
Local climate
Flookburgh War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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