Layham War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 2020. War memorial.
Layham War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- calm-timber-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 2020
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Layham War Memorial, Layham Burial Ground, Lower Street, Suffolk, IP7 5LZ
- OS grid reference
- TM 030 403
- Coordinates
- 52.02397, 0.9576
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Layham War Memorial is a war memorial erected in 1919, located in the churchyard of the Church of St Andrew in Layham, Suffolk.
It is made of pale grey granite, with a smooth-faced body and rock-faced lower steps at the base. The memorial is prominently positioned at the center of the village burial ground, directly across the road from the Church of St Andrew, which is also a listed building.
The memorial features a wheel cross atop a tapered shaft, set on a deep tapered plinth that stands on a three-stepped base. The main inscription on the east face of the plinth reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY AND IN COMMEMORATION OF THE SERVICES OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO FOUGHT IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918." The names of the fallen are inscribed on the north and south faces of the plinth, while a further inscription on the west face notes "1939 – 1945 (NAMES)."
Local climate
Layham War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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