Stow Bedon War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 2019. War memorial.
Stow Bedon War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-courtyard-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Stow Bedon War Memorial, Churchyard of the Church of St Botolph, Gravel Pit Hill, Norfolk, Stow Bedon and Breckles, NR17 1BX
- OS grid reference
- TL 961 955
- Coordinates
- 52.52273, 0.88951
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Stow Bedon War Memorial is a First World War memorial, erected around 1920, with additional names added after the Second World War. It is made of stone and features a stone cross with a carved cross fleury on the front, set on a short shaft with a moulded foot. This is positioned atop a slightly tapering plinth, which stands on a three-tiered platform. The plinth includes inscriptions in incised lettering. Very low metal bars are tightly bound around the foot of the memorial to protect the platform.
The inscription reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN LOVING & GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/ (NAMES)/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND/ COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919/ IN SACRED SLEEP THEY LIE/ SAY NOT THAT THE BRAVE DIE/ (NAME) 1939-1945// THE HONOURED RETURNED/ (NAMES)// THE HONOURED RETURNED/ (NAMES)."
Local climate
Stow Bedon 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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