West Winch 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.
West Winch War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- haunted-basalt-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- West Winch War Memorial, St Mary's Churchyard, Main Road, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE33 0NP
- OS grid reference
- TF 632 158
- Coordinates
- 52.71581, 0.41472
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The West Winch War Memorial is a memorial dedicated to those who fell in the First and Second World Wars. It was erected in March 1921, with names of the fallen from the Second World War added after 1945, and names from Setchey added in 2008.
The memorial is carved from Hopton Wood limestone and is located in the churchyard of St Mary’s Church on Main Road in West Winch, Norfolk. It is prominently placed by the west end of the church, to the right and in front of the tower doorway. The structure features a granite Latin cross with a carved wreath and ribbons at the top, encircling the relief-carved and painted dates ‘1914 – 1918’. This cross stands on a tapering, rough-axed shaft, which is supported by a small moulded rough-axed plinth that has a slightly projecting front section. The memorial has a two-stepped base that also projects forward at the front.
The shaft and plinth display inscriptions on inserted, incised granite plaques, while the epitaph is directly incised into the upper step of the base. The inscription reads: 1914 / 1918 / TO THE / GLORY OF GOD / AND TO THE / UNDYING HONOUR / OF THE MEN / WHO GAVE / THEIR LIVES IN / THE GREAT WAR / (NAMES) / 1939 – 45 / (NAMES) / FROM SETCHEY / 1914 – 1918 / (NAMES) // "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE" / ECCLUS.XLIV.14.
Local climate
West Winch War Memorial 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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