Walpole St Peter War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 2017. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Walpole St Peter War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- riven-window-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Walpole St Peter War Memorial, Churchyard of the Church of St Peter, Church Road, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE14 7PA
- OS grid reference
- TF 502 168
- Coordinates
- 52.7282, 0.2234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Walpole St Peter War Memorial is made of sandstone and is situated within St Peter’s Churchyard. It features a three-stepped base and an octagonal plinth, which supports a tapering octagonal shaft topped with a pinnacle of a Calvary cross set within a stone canopy. The base of the Calvary is adorned with carved figures, including a standing figure on either side of Christ on the front face, while the rear and sides depict additional figures, including St Michael and St George.
The memorial's plinth bears an inscription dedicated to those who fell in the First World War, reading "IN MEMORIAM 1914 – 1918." The other faces of the plinth list the names of the fallen. The top step of the base has an inscription that reads "THINK/ AND/ THANK" around it. The second step is inscribed with "1939 – 1945" on one face, while two other faces list names of the fallen, and another face is inscribed with a name followed by "KILLED IN NORTHERN IRELAND/ 1972."
Local climate
Walpole St Peter War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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