Hadleigh War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Castle Point local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 2020. War memorial.
Hadleigh War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- stony-corridor-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Castle Point
- Constituency
- Castle Point MP: Rebecca Harris (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 2020
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Hadleigh War Memorial, Memorial Recreation Ground, London Road, Junction with Chapel Lane, Essex, SS7 2QL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 805 872
- Coordinates
- 51.55516, 0.60327
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hadleigh War Memorial is a First World War memorial, dedicated in 1922, with an additional inscription added after the Second World War. It is made of stone and is located within its own fenced garden at the south-east corner of the recreation ground. The entrance to this area is at the junction of London Road and Chapel Lane, and there is no direct access from the recreation ground to the war memorial garden.
The memorial features an orb adorned with a festoon on top of a fluted Ionic column. The column rises from a pedestal with a splayed foot and recessed panels on each face, which is set on a three-stepped base.
The west face of the pedestal has the inscription: "THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED/ TO THE HONOURED AND UNDYING/ MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS/ PARISH WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES/ FOR THEIR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE/ GREAT WAR A.D. 1914 – 1919/ THE MEN WERE VERY GOOD UNTO/ US AND WE WERE NOT HURT/ THEY WERE A WALL UNTO US/ BOTH BY NIGHT AND DAY/ 1 SAM 25 15-16." The names of those who fell in the First World War are recorded on the other faces of the pedestal.
On the west face of the top step of the base, there is a carved relief dedication that reads: "1939 AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN 1945/ AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM."
Local climate
Hadleigh War Memorial receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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