Costessey War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 2017. War memorial.
Costessey War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- lost-pediment-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Costessey War Memorial, St Edmund's Churchyard, the Street, NR8 5DG
- OS grid reference
- TG 177 124
- Coordinates
- 52.66596, 1.21841
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Costessey War Memorial is located in the churchyard of St Edmund’s Church on The Street in Costessey, positioned by the south wall of the church near the south porch. The memorial features a stone floriated Latin cross atop an octagonal shaft. The cross head is adorned with carved fleuron and ballflower decoration at the top and on the two ends of the crossbar. The shaft displays two bands of incised foliate carvings around the top, with incised mock-trefoil arch motifs in between. These trefoil motifs are also repeated around the bottom of the shaft. The shaft rests on a moulded two-tiered octagonal plinth that bears inscriptions and stands on a three-stepped octagonal base.
The incised inscription reads: TO/ THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN/ UNDYING MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF THIS/ PARISH WHO FELL/ IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918/ (NAMES)/ LIVE/ WORTHY OF/ THEIR EXAMPLE// AND THESE/ MADE THE/ SUPREME/ SACRIFICE/ 1939 – 1945/ (NAMES).
Local climate
Costessey War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% 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 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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