Tivetshall St Mary War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 July 2018. War memorial.
Tivetshall St Mary War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- roaming-keep-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 July 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Tivetshall St Mary War Memorial, Churchyard of St Mary's Church, Gissing Road, NR15 2AL
- OS grid reference
- TM 166 857
- Coordinates
- 52.42725, 1.18475
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tivetshall St Mary War Memorial is a First World War memorial, erected around 1920, located in the churchyard of the ruined Church of St Mary on Gissing Road in Tivetshall St Mary, Norfolk. The memorial is prominently positioned in the churchyard, overlooking the fields across the road and near the remains of the church. It stands approximately 2.5 meters tall and features a floriated cross supported by a four-sided pedestal with a deeply moulded cornice that includes carved motifs, all resting on a two-tiered base. The pedestal has inscriptions in incised lettering, which are blacked for visibility. The inscription reads: "IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF/ TIVETSHALL ST MARY/ WHO LAID DOWN THEIR/ LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918/ (NAMES)/ GREATER LOVE HAS NO MAN/ THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY/ DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS./ R.I.P." The entire structure is set on a foundation of slabs.
Local climate
Tivetshall St Mary War Memorial sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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