Tacolneston War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 2020. War memorial.
Tacolneston War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- plain-pier-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 June 2020
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Tacolneston War Memorial, Approximately 25 Metres South West of the Church of All Saints, All Saint's Churchyard, Norwich Road, NR16 1EF
- OS grid reference
- TM 149 955
- Coordinates
- 52.51499, 1.16621
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tacolneston War Memorial is a First World War memorial built around 1920, with names added after the Second World War. Made of stone, it is located in the churchyard of the Grade I listed All Saints Church. The memorial is prominently positioned to the left of the churchyard entrance and is visible from the main road. It features a stone Latin cross with a downturned bronze sword of sacrifice on the front, set on an octagonal shaft with a moulded foot, which rests on an octagonal plinth and a three-stepped octagonal base. The design is reminiscent of Sir Reginald Blomfield’s Cross of Sacrifice. The plinth includes inscriptions in incised and blackened lettering, which read: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE GIVER OF ALL VICTORY AND IN GRATEFUL/ REMEMBRANCE OF THE MEN OF TACOLNESTON WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1919/ (NAMES)/ ALSO IN PROUD AND GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES IN THE WORLD WAR 1939 – 1945/ (NAMES)."
Local climate
Tacolneston 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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