Great Melton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 2012. War memorial.
Great Melton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- watchful-paling-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 2012
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- TG 135 060
- Coordinates
- 52.60988, 1.15223
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Great Melton War Memorial is a stone structure located in a triangular greensward at the junction of two lanes. The memorial features a cross that is set on a tapered, chamfered, smooth shaft, which stands on a roughly dressed stone plinth. The cross has a moulded base, and its arms are encircled with a stone roundel. Access to the memorial is provided by four flights of steps, which are also roughly dressed to match the plinth. On the rise of the uppermost steps, the words are carved on each side: "SONS OF THIS PLACE/LET THIS OF YOU BE SAID/THAT YOU WHO LIVE/ARE WORTHY OF YOUR DEAD."
Local climate
Great Melton 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 85% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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