Cockfield War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 February 2018. War memorial.
Cockfield War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- keen-loggia-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 February 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Cockfield War Memorial, Junction of Church Lane and Howe Lane, Suffolk
- OS grid reference
- TL 905 546
- Coordinates
- 52.15732, 0.78432
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cockfield War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920, with additions for the Second World War. It is situated on a triangular traffic island at the junction of Church Lane and Howe Lane, near the former public house, Six Bells, which is also a listed building.
The memorial is made from light-grey Scottish granite and features a tall wheel-head cross with a tapering shaft that ends in a moulded foot. The shaft is set on a tapering, square plinth that sits atop a two-stepped, chamfered base, with the bottom step made from a different type of stone than the rest of the memorial.
The main inscription is located on the south-east face of the plinth and reads, "IN MEMORY OF/ THE COCKFIELD MEN/ WHO FELL IN THE WAR/ 1914–1919./ 'THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE.'" The names of 26 individuals who fell in the First World War are inscribed on the other three sides of the plinth.
An additional inscription on the south-east face of the upper step of the base states "1939–1945." The names of five individuals who fell in the Second World War are recorded on the remaining three sides of the base. All lettering is incised and painted black.
The memorial is set on an area of paving within a square enclosure formed by eight concrete posts connected by metal rails.
Local climate
Cockfield War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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