Wereham War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 2019. War memorial.
Wereham War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- third-stronghold-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Wereham War Memorial, St Margaret's Church, St Margaret's Churchyard, St Margaret's Hill, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE33 9AW
- OS grid reference
- TF 680 016
- Coordinates
- 52.58699, 0.47966
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wereham War Memorial is a tribute to those who served in the First and Second World Wars, erected around 1920, with names from the Second World War added after 1945. It is made of carved limestone and is located in the churchyard of the Church of St Margaret in Wereham, Norfolk. The memorial is prominently positioned in a gap in the churchyard wall, overlooking the village pond and green.
It features an approximately 4-meter tall stone Latin cross atop an octagonal shaft that has a moulded table or collar at the top and a moulded base section. This is set on a four-sided plinth with moulded upper edges and corners, resting on a two-stepped stone base. The memorial is enclosed by a semi-circular railing, separating it from passers-by.
Originally, the inscriptions were incised into the stone, but they have since been replaced with brass plaques that read: "IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF WEREHAM WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918 AND THOSE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 – 1945 (NAMES)."
Local climate
Wereham 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 87% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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