Preston St Mary War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 2020. War memorial.
Preston St Mary War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- tangled-portal-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 April 2020
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Preston St Mary War Memorial, St Mary's Churchyard, Church Lane, Suffolk, CO10 9NQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 945 502
- Coordinates
- 52.11645, 0.8404
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Preston St Mary War Memorial is a First World War memorial designed by F J Lindley, with additional names added after the Second World War. It is made of Portland stone and is situated in St Mary’s Churchyard, to the south-west of the Grade I listed church.
The memorial takes the form of a Latin cross with chamfered edges, resting on a tapered plinth that is supported by a shallow square base. One side of the plinth is inscribed with the words: "LEST WE FORGET/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND/ IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF/ THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN/ THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919/ (Names)/ GREATER LOVE HAS NO MAN THAN/ THIS, THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE/ FOR HIS FRIENDS." The opposite side bears the inscription: "1939-1945/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND/ IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/ THOSE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE/ CAUSE OF FREEDOM AND TO/ SAVE THEIR COUNTRY FROM/ TYRANNY AND AGGRESSION (Sic)/ (Names)."
Local climate
Preston St Mary 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% 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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