War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 March 1978. War memorial.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- heavy-trefoil-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 March 1978
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, High Street, Skipton
- OS grid reference
- SD 990 518
- Coordinates
- 53.96278, -2.01618
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial, unveiled in 1922 by James Henry Sellers, features two bronze sculptures by the artist John Cassidy. It is made of white stone and has a complex moulded plinth with eight unequal sides, which includes both concave and convex lines. The plinth displays bronze plaques with names and a carved inscription. At the front, there is a raised section that supports a kneeling bronze figure breaking a sword over its knee. Behind this figure is a tall column with a hollow-sided triangular section, topped with a bronze figure of winged victory holding a garland aloft.
Local climate
War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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