Narborough War Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 2018. War memorial.
Narborough War Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- rusted-wall-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Narborough War Memorial Cross, C40m East of All Saints' Church, the Churchyard, Main Road, Norfolk, PE32 1XL
- OS grid reference
- TF 747 129
- Coordinates
- 52.68629, 0.5833
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Narborough War Memorial Cross is located in the churchyard of the Church of All Saints, which is a Grade I-listed building. It is prominently placed just inside the churchyard entrance, facing Main Road. The memorial features a granite wheel-head cross with a reversed sword carved in low relief on the front face. The cross is set on a tapering plinth with a two-stepped base and is surrounded by a low granite kerb filled with chippings. The inscriptions are made with applied metal lettering.
The main dedicatory inscription starts on the front face of the foot of the cross shaft, reading "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF" and continues on the plinth below, listing 11 names of those who gave their lives to save their country in the Great War from 1914 to 1919. A later dedication for the Second World War is found on the rear face of the plinth, stating "ALSO OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE WORLD WAR 1939 – 1945," which includes 6 names.
Local climate
Narborough War Memorial Cross sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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