Skipwith War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. Memorial.
Skipwith War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- mired-chimney-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Selby MP: Keir Mather (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Skipwith War Memorial, Churchyard of the Church of St Helen, 6 Westfield, Main Street, Selby, YO8 5SJ
- OS grid reference
- SE 657 384
- Coordinates
- 53.83848, -1.0028
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Skipwith War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1923, with later additions for the Second World War. It is made of Scottish silver granite and is located on the south side of the church along the path leading to the entrance of St Helen’s Church from Main Street.
The memorial features a wheel-head cross with a tapering shaft, which is decorated with Celtic knot work patterns on the front. This shaft is set on a tapering plinth, which stands on a base of two rectangular steps, with the first step being higher than the second. The memorial is approximately 2.4 meters tall.
On the eastern face of the shaft and the plinth, there is a dedicatory inscription and names rendered in leaded lettering. The main inscription at the bottom of the shaft reads: "TO THE HONOURED MEMORY OF THOSE FROM THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918." The eastern side of the plinth lists eleven names of men who fell during the First World War, arranged in alphabetical order by surname, followed by the inscription "I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE." The southern side of the plinth includes four names of men who fell during the Second World War.
Local climate
Skipwith War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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