Brompton-by-Sawdon War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 2019. Memorial.

Brompton-by-Sawdon War Memorial

WRENN ID
tattered-pedestal-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 November 2019
Type
Memorial
Address
Brompton-by-Sawdon War Memorial, High Street, Scarborough, YO13 9DP
OS grid reference
SE 945 822
Coordinates
54.22746, -0.55119
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Brompton-by-Sawdon War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in the early 1920s, with additions for the Second World War. It is made of ashlar sandstone and has a square plan.

The memorial is located next to the High Street, close to the Grade II-listed Manor House. It features a Celtic wheel cross with a simple raised knot work design, set on a short tapering shaft that has a plain panel bordered by torus moulding. The cross shaft rises from a tapering pedestal, which sits on a three-stepped square plinth. The cross is proportionally shorter than the combined height of the pedestal and plinth.

On the south face of the pedestal, there is incised black painted lettering that reads: "ERECTED IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF BROMPTON AND SAWDON WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918. 'THE MEN WERE VERY GOOD UNTO US, AND WE WERE NOT HURT; THEY WERE A WALL UNTO US BOTH BY NIGHT AND DAY.' I. SAM. 25. MAY THEY REST IN PEACE." The names of the 13 men who fell in the First World War are inscribed on the east and west sides of the pedestal. The south side of the top step of the plinth notes the years 1939 – 1945 and includes four names.

Local climate

Brompton-by-Sawdon War Memorial receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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