Great Cressingham War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 2017. War memorial.
Great Cressingham War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- lost-span-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Great Cressingham War Memorial, The Churchyard, Church of St Michael, Priory Drive, Norfolk, IP25 6NH
- OS grid reference
- TF 852 017
- Coordinates
- 52.58212, 0.73209
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Cressingham War Memorial is situated in the churchyard of the Church of St Michael, which is a Grade I-listed building, and it stands to the north of the church tower. The memorial features a rough-hewn grey granite wheel-head cross, which has a reversed sword carved in relief on the front. It is mounted on a plinth with a single-stepped base beneath it. The plinth displays inscriptions in applied metal lettering that read: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918 (12 NAMES) THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE."
Local climate
Great Cressingham War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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