Long Melford War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 June 2016. War memorial. 2 related planning applications.
Long Melford War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- outer-frieze-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 June 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Long Melford War Memorial, Churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Church Walk, Suffolk, CO10 9DJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 865 467
- Coordinates
- 52.08732, 0.7208
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Long Melford War Memorial is a Grade II-listed structure located within the churchyard of the Grade I-listed Holy Trinity Church. It is made of Clipsham stone and features a Latin cross with shields carved on four sides of the lower shaft, representing St Michael, St Nicholas, St George, and St Edmund.
The cross stands on an octagonal base that has a moulded cornice. The base displays the main dedicatory inscription in medieval script, which reads: "TO COMMEMORATE THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED OUT OF THE SIGHT OF MEN BY THE PATH OF DUTY AND SELF-SACRIFICE 1914-1919. LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER SEE TO IT THAT THEIR NAMES BE NOT FORGOTTEN." Above this, a two-stepped plinth is engraved with the 96 names of those who fell in the First World War. The names of the fallen from the Second World War, along with the dates 1939 - 1945, are inscribed on the base of the memorial beneath the principal inscription.
Local climate
Long Melford 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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