War Memorial in St Lawrence's Churchyard, Appleby is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 2018. War memorial.

War Memorial in St Lawrence's Churchyard, Appleby

WRENN ID
gilded-footing-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 June 2018
Type
War memorial
Address
War Memorial in St Lawrence's Churchyard, Appleby, The Churchyard, St Lawrence's Church, Boroughgate, Appleby-In-Westmorland, Cumbria, CA16 6QN
OS grid reference
NY 683 204
Coordinates
54.57799, -2.4914
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The war memorial cross is situated to the south of the Grade I-listed Parish Church of St Lawrence and close to the Grade II*-listed The Cloisters, as well as several Grade II-listed buildings along Bridge Street.

This memorial features a stone wheel-head cross, which is adorned with intricately carved interlace patterns on the south face of both the cross-head and shaft. The cross shaft rises from a tapering square plinth that sits atop a two-stepped square base. All lettering on the memorial is incised.

The main dedicatory inscription on the south face of the plinth reads: "IN MEMORY/ OF THOSE FROM THE PARISHES/ OF ST LAWRENCE & ST MICHAEL/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR./ 1914 - 1918./ 'THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE'." Fifty-one names of the commemorated individuals are inscribed on the other faces of the plinth, with one soldier’s name noted on the north face of the upper step of the base.

Local climate

War Memorial in St Lawrence's Churchyard, Appleby 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 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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