War Memorial outside St Andrew's Church is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 2016. War memorial.
War Memorial outside St Andrew's Church
- WRENN ID
- gentle-cobalt-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial outside St Andrew's Church, The Churchyard, St Andrew's Place, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 7AU
- OS grid reference
- NY 516 301
- Coordinates
- 54.66403, -2.75173
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial is located in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church, which is a Grade I listed building. It stands to the west of the church, near several other listed structures and scheduled churchyard monuments. The memorial features a tall sandstone cross with a small wheel-head, set on a small stepped pedestal.
The front face of the cross is adorned with intricate carved designs, including interlace on the cross head and a vine wrapped around the shaft, which bears the cross of St Andrew. The main dedicatory inscription at the base of the shaft reads: IN PROUD AND/ GRATEFUL/ MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF/ PENRITH/ WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES/ IN THE WAR/ 1914-1918.
The rear face of the cross head is similarly decorated, while the shaft features a complex interlace pattern surrounding a Latin cross. Below this decoration is the inscription: AS DYING/ AND BEHOLD/ WE LIVE.
Local climate
War Memorial outside St Andrew's Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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