Horsford War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 2017. War memorial.
Horsford War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- ragged-rampart-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Horsford War Memorial, All Saints Churchyard, Church Street, Norfolk, NR10 3DB
- OS grid reference
- TG 196 153
- Coordinates
- 52.69131, 1.24926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horsford War Memorial is a First World War memorial that includes additions for later conflicts. It is located in the churchyard south of the Parish Church of All Saints, which is a Grade II*-listed building. The memorial is positioned to the east of the path leading to the church, with the Grade II-listed Horsford Hall across the road.
The memorial is made of polished grey granite and features a square pillar topped with a two-tiered pyramidal cap. Just below the cap, the pillar has a band of roll moulding. It rises from a square plinth with a moulded cap, resting on a single-step chamfered base, all of which sits on a narrow stone block.
The inscriptions and names are presented in leaded lettering, painted black, on rough-finished sections that are inset into the polished surfaces of the memorial. The main inscription on the south face of the lower tier of the pyramidal cap reads: "IN SACRED AND LOVING MEMORY OF THOSE WHO/ FELL IN THE DEFENCE OF JUSTICE AND RIGHT/ IN THE GREAT WAR. 1914 – 1919." The south face of the plinth states, "THEIR NAMES LIVETH FOR EVERMORE," with the words "THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED BY THE/ RELATIVES, FRIENDS AND PARISHIONERS/ OF HORSFORD" written directly below at the base.
The names of 26 individuals who died in the First World War are listed on the south and west faces of the pillar, including their dates of death. The names of seven casualties from the Second World War are also inscribed on the west face, arranged similarly under the dates 1939 – 1945. On the east face of the pillar, the name of a single casualty from a later 20th-century conflict is noted, with the words "REMEMBERING ALSO OTHERS/ KILLED SERVING THEIR COUNTRY" positioned above on the pyramidal cap.
Local climate
Horsford 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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