Hempnall War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 2017. War memorial.
Hempnall War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- eastward-wicket-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Hempnall War Memorial, The Junction of Broaden Lane and the Street, Norwich, NR15 2NF
- OS grid reference
- TM 236 947
- Coordinates
- 52.50492, 1.29437
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hempnall War Memorial is situated on a small green at the junction of Broaden Lane and The Street, about 40 meters east of The Thatched House, which is also a Grade II-listed building. The memorial features a stone wheel-head cross adorned with intricate carvings of flowers, including the rose, iris, grape, and Passion of Christ, on each arm, with a Tudor rose motif at the center. The wheel of the cross-head has small floral carvings as well.
The cross head is mounted on a straight shaft that has a simply-moulded foot and a carved relief wreath towards the upper part on both the front and rear. The shaft rises from a tapering plinth that has a double-moulded cap and a sloping foot step. This is set on a large stone base with a rusticated surface.
The main dedicatory inscription, which appears on the front and rear faces of the cross shaft beneath the carved wreaths, reads "TO THE GLORY OF GOD 1914-1918," with the names of those commemorated listed on two faces of the plinth. The dedication for the Second World War, located on the east face of the plinth, reads "TO THE GLORY OF GOD 1939-1945 (NAMES)."
The memorial is enclosed by a small gravelled area, which is bordered by four low posts that support spiked chains. The south-eastern post is inscribed with "COMMEMORATION OF THE KING’S SILVER JUBILEE 1935."
Local climate
Hempnall 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 91% 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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