Benhall War Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 February 2018. War memorial.
Benhall War Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- fading-cobalt-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 February 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Benhall War Memorial Cross, The Churchyard, St Mary's Church, Deadman's Lane, IP17 1JL
- OS grid reference
- TM 372 618
- Coordinates
- 52.20381, 1.46998
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Benhall War Memorial Cross is located prominently in the churchyard beside the south porch of the Church of St Mary, which is listed as Grade II*. The memorial features a blind wheel-head cross that rises from a tapering plinth, resting on a two-stepped base. The front face of the cross is decorated with a reversed sword carved in low relief. Made of Portland stone, the memorial stands approximately 3.3 meters high.
The main dedicatory inscription on the front face of the plinth reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF/ THE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO FELL IN THE WAR/ 1914–1918/ (19 NAMES)/ “GOD PROVED THEM AND FOUND THEM WORTHY OF HIMSELF.”
Local climate
Benhall War Memorial Cross 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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