Memorial to the 15th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (The Leeds Pals) is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 2016. Memorial.
Memorial to the 15th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (The Leeds Pals)
- WRENN ID
- deep-zinc-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 2016
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Memorial to the 15th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (The Leeds Pals), Breary Banks, Healey, HG4 4LX
- OS grid reference
- SE 155 800
- Coordinates
- 54.21636, -1.76271
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The memorial to the 15th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment, known as the Leeds Pals, is located on the south side of the road at Breary Banks. It features a tall, broad, tapered pylon made of rusticated stone blocks, which is square in shape. On the front face of the memorial, there is a rectangular bronze plaque adorned with the York rose in each corner and the City of Leeds coat of arms. The plaque bears the inscription: "1914 1918/ THIS CAIRN WAS ERECTED BY THE/ SURVIVORS, RELATIVES, AND FRIENDS OF THE/ 15TH BATT. WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (LEEDS ‘PALS’)/ TO MARK THE SITE OF THE FIRST CAMP (SEPTEMBER 1914)/ AND IS DEDICATED TO ALL WHO SERVED IN THE BATTALION./ UNVEILED SEPT. 28TH 1935."
Local climate
Memorial to the 15th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (The Leeds Pals) receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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