War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 2012. Memorial.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- dusk-cloister-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 2012
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, West Walton Cemetery, Mill Road, West Walton, Wisbech, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TF 469 133
- Coordinates
- 52.69831, 0.17358
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial is a First World War memorial erected in the 1920s. It features a marble cross on a stone base and is located in the centre of the cemetery, with a square plan.
The memorial consists of a wheel cross on a high, tapering plinth, which rests on a marble base. This base stands on a triple-stepped stone base with low corner posts. The centre of the cross is carved with the word ‘HIS’, and around the wheel is a Latin inscription that reads ‘Pro deo et patria’. The horizontal arms of the cross display the dates ‘1914’ and ‘1919’, while the bottom of the cross shaft is inscribed with ‘To the dear memory of our fallen’. The names of the fallen are inscribed on the plinth, and the marble base features the words ‘Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.’ Additionally, the date ‘1939-1945’ and the names of the fallen from the Second World War have been added to the side of the plinth. All inscriptions are made with flush lead lettering.
Local climate
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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