Richmond Borough War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 2017. Memorial. 4 related planning applications.
Richmond Borough War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- knotted-quartz-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 2017
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Richmond Borough War Memorial, Friary Gardens, Queens Road, DL10 4AJ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 171 010
- Coordinates
- 54.40455, -1.73773
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Richmond Borough War Memorial is a tall memorial made of Staindrop stone, located in Friary Gardens, in front of the Grade I-listed Grey Friars Tower and within the scheduled area of the Franciscan Friary. It features a small equal-armed cross that rises from a moulded collar on an octagonal shaft. The shaft is set on three steps, which are elevated on a tall octagonal base. This base sits on a low step and is integrated into an offset retaining wall made of coursed rubble-stone that flanks the cross.
The main dedicatory inscription, which is incised around the top of the base, reads: "IN MEMORY OF/ THE RICHMOND/ MEN WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES IN/ THE GREAT WAR." A relief carving of a three-masted warship with billowing sails is featured on the front face of the base, while the names of the fallen are incised into the other faces.
On either side of the memorial cross, there are two identical rectangular bronze plaques attached to the flanking retaining wall. These plaques read: "RICHMOND BOROUGH WAR MEMORIAL/ 1939 – 1945/ (NAMES)/ THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE," and they commemorate the casualties of the Second World War.
Local climate
Richmond Borough War Memorial receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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