Garboldisham War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 2018. War memorial.
Garboldisham War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- veiled-latch-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Garboldisham War Memorial, Church Road, Junction of Manor Road, Norfolk, IP22 2SE
- OS grid reference
- TM 005 815
- Coordinates
- 52.39557, 0.94677
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garboldisham War Memorial is a First World War memorial built around 1920, with additions for the Second World War. It is situated in a roadside gated enclosure at the junction of Church Road and Manor Road. The memorial features a hollow wheel head stone cross pattée, which is pierced with a carving of St George and the Dragon, set on a tapering octagonal shaft that ends in a moulded foot adorned with shields on its four faces. Below this is a plinth with four projecting faces that display applied inscription tablets with apexes. The entire structure rests on a two-stepped square base, enclosed by a brick and flint wall at the back and sides, and metal railings with an access gate at the front. The enclosure is paved with cobbled flint.
The front face of the plinth has incised and painted inscriptions on applied stone tablets, which read: MCMXIV/ MCMXIX// PRAISE GOD/ FOR THESE MEN OF/ GARBOLDISHAM/ FOR THEY/ LOVED LIBERTY/ MORE THAN LIFE/ & WERE FAITHFUL/ UNTO DEATH// The names of the fallen are inscribed on the other three faces of the plinth, with the rear face featuring the Second World War addition that reads: 1939 – 1945/ (NAMES).
Local climate
Garboldisham 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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