Fairburn War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 2019. War memorial.
Fairburn War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- upper-bonework-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Selby MP: Keir Mather (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- SE 473 279
- Coordinates
- 53.74584, -1.28394
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fairburn War Memorial is a war memorial built in 1924, made of Portland stone. It takes the form of a simple obelisk that stands about 4 meters tall, raised on a single step. The memorial features inscriptions on two faces.
On the west face, the inscription reads:
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY OF THE
FOLLOWING MEN FROM THIS
PARISH WHO FELL IN THE
GREAT WAR 1914-1918.
This is followed by ten names and the phrase:
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR
HIS FRIENDS.
The north face has a nearly identical inscription, with 'Great War 1914-1918' replaced by 'WAR 1939-1945', followed by eight names.
Local climate
Fairburn War Memorial receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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