Holton St Peter War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 2018. War memorial.
Holton St Peter War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- sombre-hearth-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Holton St Peter War Memorial, Churchyard of the Church of St Peter, Beccles Road, IP19 8ND
- OS grid reference
- TM 403 778
- Coordinates
- 52.34572, 1.52671
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Holton St Peter War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920, with later additions for the Second World War. It is located at the southernmost point of the churchyard, approximately 75 meters southeast of the Church of St Peter, which is a Grade II* listed building.
The memorial features a plain stone Latin cross that stands about 2.4 meters high, mounted on a substantial octagonal plinth and square base. At the base of the shaft, there is a carved shield inscribed with the years 1914 – 1919.
On the south-west face of the plinth, the main inscription reads: "IN PROUD AND AFFECTIONATE MEMORY OF THOSE BRAVE SONS OF HOLTON, WHO FOUGHT AND DIED FOR THEIR FRIENDS, THEIR HOMES, AND THEIR COUNTRY, IN THE GREAT WAR." The names of the fallen are listed on the south and west faces of the plinth, each topped with the inscription “THE GLORIOUS DEAD.”
The rear of the plinth includes the inscription 1939 – 1945 followed by the names of those commemorated.
Local climate
Holton St Peter War Memorial 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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