Carbrooke War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 2018. Memorial.
Carbrooke War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- hushed-baluster-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 2018
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Carbrooke War Memorial, Ss Peter and Paul's Churchyard, Church Street, Norfolk, IP25 6SW
- OS grid reference
- TF 949 022
- Coordinates
- 52.58275, 0.87595
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Carbrooke War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1922, with additions for the Second World War. It is situated in the churchyard to the west of the Grade I-listed Church of SS Peter and Paul and near the Grade II-listed building, The Thatched Cottage. A section of the churchyard wall has been removed to allow the memorial to be seen from the roadside, and it is accessed by a set of steps.
The memorial features a stone Calvary cross with a sculpted depiction of the Crucifixion on the west face, set beneath an ornately carved canopy with cusped tracery. This is supported by a slender octagonal shaft with a moulded collar and foot, rising from a square pedestal with chamfered top corners. The pedestal is on an octagonal plinth with roll moulding detail on alternating faces, which stands on a two-stepped octagonal base resting on a concrete foundation.
The pedestal and plinth display names and inscriptions in incised lettering. The main inscription on the west face of the pedestal reads, THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919. The three westernmost faces of the plinth list the names of the First World War casualties: the north-west face has seven names under the heading FAITHFUL, the west face has seven names under the heading UNTO, and the south-west face has seven names under the heading DEATH.
On the south face of the pedestal, the dates 1939-1945 are incised, with six names of the Second World War casualties recorded on the plinth directly below.
Local climate
Carbrooke War Memorial 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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