Halesworth War Memorial Obelisk is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Memorial.
Halesworth War Memorial Obelisk
- WRENN ID
- lone-floor-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Halesworth War Memorial Obelisk, C25m North-East of St Mary's Church, the Arboretum, Thoroughfare, IP19 8LQ
- OS grid reference
- TM 386 773
- Coordinates
- 52.34268, 1.50193
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Halesworth War Memorial Obelisk is an approximately 4.5-meter tall memorial made of Aberdeen granite. It is located in a prominent position within a small memorial garden called The Arboretum, next to the north-eastern entrance of the churchyard of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, which is listed as Grade II*. The memorial is also near several other listed buildings in the town center, including 1 Market Place, which is Grade II.
The memorial features an obelisk that rises from a slightly tapering pedestal. The pedestal has a two-stage base, with the lower stage made of a different stone and standing on a three-stepped base that is square in shape. The main dedicatory inscription, made of applied metal lettering, is located on the north-east face of the pedestal and reads: "IN HONOUR OF THE MEN/ OF HALESWORTH/ WHO FELL IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914–1918." Each of the other three faces of the pedestal is inscribed with "IN MEMORIAM" followed by names.
Additionally, there is an inscription on the front face of the upper base stage of the pedestal that states: “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS”/ 1939 – 1945. The names of those who died in the Second World War are inscribed on two other faces, with the fourth face stating: “LEST WE FORGET”/ CIVILIANS KILLED BY ENEMY ACTION/ followed by three names.
Local climate
Halesworth War Memorial Obelisk sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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