Gissing War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 2017. War memorial.
Gissing War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- shifting-doorway-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Gissing War Memorial, C40m South-West of St Mary's Church, Lower Street, IP22 5UJ
- OS grid reference
- TM 145 852
- Coordinates
- 52.42329, 1.15469
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gissing War Memorial is located next to the churchyard of the Church of St Mary, which is a Grade I-listed building, on the east side of Lower Street. The memorial is prominently placed in a kerbed and railed enclosure that is raised above the road level. It is made of granite and features a rough-hewn wheel-head cross. The front of the cross is decorated with a reversed sword carved in low relief. The cross is set on a tapering plinth and a single-stepped base, which stands on a two-stage paved base.
The plinth has inscriptions in leaded lettering. On the front face of the cross shaft, below the carved sword, the dedication reads "TO THE GLORY OF GOD." This continues on the front face of the plinth with "AND IN MEMORY OF GISSING MEN FALLEN IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918" followed by nine names. On the riser of the step below, there is a later inscription that reads "ALSO THOSE WHO FELL IN THE 1939 – 1945 WAR" followed by two names.
Local climate
Gissing 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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