Orford War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 2020. War memorial.
Orford War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- western-balcony-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 2020
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Orford War Memorial, St Bartholomew's Churchyard, Church Street, Junction of Market Hill and High Street, IP12 2LL
- OS grid reference
- TM 422 499
- Coordinates
- 52.09494, 1.53492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Orford War Memorial is a First World War memorial dedicated in 1920, with names added after the Second World War. It is situated within the churchyard of the Grade I listed St Bartholomew’s Church, approximately seven metres south of the church's south porch.
The memorial features a rough hewn granite wheel-headed cross, which has a reversed sword carved in relief on its front face running down the shaft. The shaft rises from a tapering square plinth that sits on a single stepped square base. There is raised enamelled lettering on two sides of the plinth.
The dedication starts on the base of the shaft with the words "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND," while the front face of the plinth continues with "IN LOVING GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE ORFORD MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1919 – 1918 (NAMES) 'THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE'." On a second face of the plinth, there is a later inserted plaque that reads "REMEMBER BEFORE GOD THOSE WHOSE LIVES HAVE BEEN SACRIFICED IN THE WAR 1939 – 1945 (NAMES) 'DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY' 1 COR.15."
Local climate
Orford War Memorial 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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