Nacton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Memorial.
Nacton War Memorial
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Nacton War Memorial, Triangular Green, Junction of Ipswich Road and the Street, IP10 0EQ
- OS grid reference
- TM 219 399
- Coordinates
- 52.01367, 1.2323
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Nacton War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920. It is located prominently on a small triangle of grass at the junction of Ipswich Road and The Street, in the center of the village.
The memorial features a small Latin cross atop a tall, tapering octagonal column, which sits on an octagonal plinth above a conical structure made of brick and stone. This is set on a paved brick octagonal base. The cross, column, and plinth are all carved from Clipsham stone, and the memorial stands approximately 5 meters high.
The main inscription, which is incised and painted black, is displayed around three sides of the octagonal plinth and reads: "THIS CROSS WAS ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD & TO THE HONOUR & GRATEFUL MEMORY OF OUR MEN WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914–1918."
The names of the 18 men who died in the war are carved around the two stone bands that are part of the conical structure below the octagonal plinth.
Local climate
Nacton 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 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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