Witton War Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 2018. War memorial.
Witton War Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- night-soffit-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 July 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Witton War Memorial Cross, C13m North-West of St Margaret's Church, the Churchyard, Witton Lane, Norfolk, Postwick with Witton, NR13 5DN
- OS grid reference
- TG 314 097
- Coordinates
- 52.63597, 1.41851
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Witton War Memorial Cross is a grey granite structure located in the churchyard of the Church of St Margaret, which is also listed at Grade II*. It is prominently positioned by the churchyard path. The memorial features a tall, rough-hewn wheel-head cross with a sword of sacrifice carved on its front face. This cross stands on a tapering pedestal that has a single-stepped base beneath it. Both the cross shaft and pedestal display inscriptions in applied metal lettering.
The main dedicatory inscription starts on the front face of the cross shaft, reading "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN HONOURED MEMORY OF," and continues below on the pedestal with "THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918." It lists three names and concludes with the phrase "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE."
Local climate
Witton War Memorial Cross 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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