War Memorial at St Marys Church is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 2001. War memorial.
War Memorial at St Marys Church
- WRENN ID
- drifting-steeple-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 August 2001
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial at St Marys Church, Polstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 989 380
- Coordinates
- 52.00521, 0.89709
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial at St Mary's Church is a Grade II listed structure built in 1920 by A.A. Hunt and C.L. Coates of Bury St Edmunds. Constructed from Clipsham ashlar, this memorial stands 16 feet high on a stepped base. The main block tapers with smaller blocks above it. On the side facing St Mary's Church, it features the names of those who fell in both World Wars, while the opposite side displays a carved roundel in relief depicting St George and the Dragon. There are inscriptions and dates on the ends of the memorial. This impressive and well-designed structure forms a group with the Church of St Mary.
Local climate
War Memorial at St Marys Church sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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