Holbrook War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 2019. War memorial.
Holbrook War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-threshold-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Holbrook War Memorial, Roadside Outside the Church of All Saints, Church Hill, Junction of Hyams Lane, Suffolk, IP9 2QP
- OS grid reference
- TM 169 361
- Coordinates
- 51.98112, 1.15844
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holbrook War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1921, with additions for the Second World War. It is made of rough-hewn Cornish granite and is located prominently on the east side of Church Hill, at the junction with Hyams Lane, just west of the Church of All Saints, which is listed as Grade II*.
The memorial features a plain Celtic wheel-head cross on top of a tall shaft that tapers in rectangular section from a trapezoidal plinth, which stands on a four-stepped base. The entire structure is set on a single-stepped concrete foundation stone.
The main dedicatory inscription is in leaded lettering on the polished west face of the plinth and reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF HOLBROOK / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914–1918 / [Names]." On the south face of the plinth, there is a dedication for the Second World War that reads: "1939 - 1945 / [Names]."
Local climate
Holbrook War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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