War Memorial at the Church of St Laurence is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 2002. War memorial.
War Memorial at the Church of St Laurence
- WRENN ID
- spare-clay-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 2002
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial at the Church of St Laurence, Church Hill, Newby and Scalby
- OS grid reference
- TA 009 903
- Coordinates
- 54.29899, -0.4505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial at the Church of St Laurence is a structure built in 1920. It is made of ashlar and features an octagonal village cross. The memorial has a triangular ashlar base that supports two hexagonal stone steps. At the center, a tall hexagonal base is topped with a higher hexagonal pier that bears an inscription honoring the villagers who lost their lives in both the Great War and the Second World War. The design includes a chamfered stepped hexagonal plinth leading up to a tall hexagonal cross, which is topped with a carved stone sword.
Local climate
War Memorial at the Church of St Laurence receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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