Dunwich War Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 2018. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Dunwich War Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- hushed-banister-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Dunwich War Memorial Cross, C40m North-West of St James's Church, Westleton Road, IP17 3DY
- OS grid reference
- TM 474 706
- Coordinates
- 52.27807, 1.62583
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dunwich War Memorial Cross is located prominently by the roadside on Westleton Road, opposite the Church of St James and the remains of All Saints' Church. It features a grey granite wheel-head cross with a reversed sword on its front face, standing on a tapering plinth with a single-stepped base. Access to the memorial is provided by a short flight of steps made of grey granite blocks.
The main dedicatory inscription, made with applied metal lettering on the front face of the plinth, reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF (10 NAMES) WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR JUSTICE AND RIGHT IN THE GREAT WAR 1914–1918. THEY LOVED NOT THEIR LIVES UNTO THE DEATH (1 NAME)." The names commemorated are listed along with their regiment or service and date of death.
Local climate
Dunwich War Memorial Cross receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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