Earsham War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 2017. War memorial.
Earsham War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- carved-merlon-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Earsham War Memorial, Junction of the Street and Station Road, NR35 2TY
- OS grid reference
- TM 322 890
- Coordinates
- 52.45039, 1.41663
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Earsham War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920, with additions for the Second World War. It is located in front of the village hall, at the junction of The Street and Station Road.
The memorial features a polished granite wheel-head cross with a thin, tapering shaft and a stepped foot. The shaft rises from a rectangular, tapering plinth that has a three-stepped base on a square platform. Circles are carved in relief on the arms and centre of the front (north) face of the cross-head.
The main inscription is incised into the lower section of the shaft and reads: "FOR GOD/ FOR KING/ FOR COUNTRY/ IN/ GRATEFUL/ MEMORY/ OF THE MEN/ FROM EARSHAM/ WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919." Below this, 25 names are listed on the front face of the plinth, with three under NAVY and 22 under ARMY. The uppermost step bears the inscription "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE." The east face of the plinth has the inscription "1939 – 1945/ (7 NAMES)." All lettering is incised and painted black.
Local climate
Earsham 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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