Hales and Heckingham War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 2017. War memorial.
Hales and Heckingham War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- high-chalk-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Hales and Heckingham War Memorial, Yarmouth Road, Norwich, NR14 6TA
- OS grid reference
- TM 379 973
- Coordinates
- 52.522, 1.50672
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hales and Heckingham War Memorial is a First World War memorial, erected around 1920. After being damaged in a traffic accident in 1999, it was re-erected and re-dedicated in 2002, with additions for the Second World War.
Constructed from granite, the memorial features a Celtic cross located on a small traffic island at the crossroads of School Lane and Green Lane with Yarmouth Road in the village of Hales. It consists of a part polished and part roughly-hewn plinth that stands on a shallow base added in 2002. A tall shaft rises from the plinth, tapering in rectangular section to a Celtic wheel-head cross, which displays the raised HIS Christogram in Gothic lettering.
The dedicatory inscription on the polished west face of the plinth reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN/ UNDYING REMEMBRANCE OF THESE MEN / OF HALES AND HECKINGHAM / WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR / THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918 / MAY THEY REST IN PEACE/ HECKINGHAM / [NAMES]." The inscription on the east face of the plinth states: "HALES / [NAMES] / 'PASS FRIEND. ALL'S WELL'." The names of the fallen are inscribed on the side of the plinth facing their respective village, while the corresponding sides of the modern base bear the names of those who died during the Second World War.
Local climate
Hales and Heckingham War Memorial receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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