East and West Runton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 2019. War memorial.
East and West Runton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- steep-grate-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 October 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- East and West Runton War Memorial, 36m South-East of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Cromer Road (A149), NR27 9QT
- OS grid reference
- TG 179 427
- Coordinates
- 52.93819, 1.24239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The East and West Runton War Memorial is a First World War memorial, unveiled in 1921, with a later addition for the Second World War. It is constructed of flint with ashlar dressings and is prominently located alongside the main road through the village of West Runton, next to the boundary wall of the churchyard.
Three steps lead up to the memorial, which features an angled or canted wall made of cut and squared flints laid in regular courses with ashlar dressings. The memorial has a moulded cornice and a frieze inscribed with the painted lettering:
"THEY WERE A WALL UNTO US BOTH BY NIGHT AND DAY."
There are three panels on the front of the memorial. The outer panels list the names of those who fell in the First World War, while the central panel reads:
"TO THE MEN OF/ RUNTON/ WHO FELL / (NAMES)/ 1939-1945."
Local climate
East and West Runton War Memorial receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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