Guist War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Guist War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- ragged-forge-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Guist War Memorial, St Andrew's Churchyard, Norwich Road, Norfolk, NR20 5PQ
- OS grid reference
- TG 000 255
- Coordinates
- 52.79057, 0.96539
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Guist War Memorial is a First World War memorial with additions for the Second World War, located in the churchyard southeast of the Church of St Andrew, which is also listed at Grade II*. The memorial is positioned close to the churchyard wall facing Norwich Road.
It features a stone obelisk that rises from a square plinth with a moulded foot, set upon a two-stepped base. The plinth is topped with a gabled cap above a cornice with a cavetto profile.
The plinth's faces display inscriptions and names in raised, leaded lettering. The main inscription is on the south face, which reads: "TO THE/ GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN GRATEFUL/ REMEMBRANCE OF/ THE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR US IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1919./ 'THEY WERE A WALL UNTO US/ BOTH BY NIGHT AND DAY.'" The names of the twelve men who died are inscribed on the east and west faces.
The north face includes the Second World War inscription: "ALSO/ FOR THOSE WHO/ GAVE THEIR LIVES/ 1939 - 1945 /" followed by five names.
The memorial is set within a square, gravelled area that is bordered by stone kerbs.
Local climate
Guist War Memorial receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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