Wreningham War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 2018. War memorial.
Wreningham War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- scattered-hammer-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 July 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Wreningham War Memorial, C15m South-West of All Saints Church, the Churchyard, Church Road, NR16 1BH
- OS grid reference
- TM 163 988
- Coordinates
- 52.54407, 1.18864
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wreningham War Memorial is a limestone cross located on the southern edge of the churchyard of the Church of All Saints, which is a Grade I-listed building. The memorial features a Latin cross-head on a collared cross shaft that is octagonal in shape. This shaft rises from a two-stage plinth that is square in plan and stands on a large base. The lower stage of the plinth is made from limestone ashlar, with knapped facing flints visible on three sides. The base consists of flint cobbles topped with a stone cap.
The main dedicatory inscription is found on the front face of the shouldered upper stage of the plinth, which reads "REMEMBER/ THOSE/ WHO DIED/ FOR KING AND COUNTRY/ 1914 1919." The names of those commemorated from the First World War are listed on the other faces. The dedication for the Second World War is located on the front face of the lower stage of the plinth and reads "1939 1945/ (NAMES)."
Local climate
Wreningham 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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