Wiggenhall St Germans War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 2018. Memorial.
Wiggenhall St Germans War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-buttress-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 2018
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Wiggenhall St Germans War Memorial, St Germans Churchyard, Lynn Road, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE34 3EU
- OS grid reference
- TF 596 140
- Coordinates
- 52.70041, 0.36156
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wiggenhall St Germans War Memorial is a First World War memorial, erected around 1920, located in the churchyard of the Church of St Germans on Lynn Road, Wiggenhall St Germans, Norfolk. It is prominently positioned off the churchyard path. The memorial consists of a polished grey granite plain cross atop a tall shaft, which sits on a tapering plinth with a moulded cap and a two-stepped base. The entire structure is enclosed within a small square kerbed area.
The plinth features inscriptions dedicated to the First World War, while the upper tier of the base carries the inscription for the Second World War. The incised inscription reads: "TO THE MEMORY OF OUR FALLEN / (NAMES) / GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS / THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS / FRIENDS / ST JOHN IV.13 // 1939 – 1945 / (NAMES)." Additionally, the south face of the plinth is inscribed with "THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1919."
Local climate
Wiggenhall St Germans 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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