Knodishall War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Knodishall War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- tangled-quartz-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Knodishall War Memorial, Churchyard of the Church of St Lawrence, Church Road, IP17 1TW
- OS grid reference
- TM 425 619
- Coordinates
- 52.20234, 1.54853
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Knodishall War Memorial is a First World War memorial erected in 1919, with later additions for the Second World War. It is made of polished granite and is located in the churchyard near the Church of St Lawrence, which is a Grade II* listed building.
The memorial features a polished granite obelisk that stands approximately 2.4 meters high, set on a square plinth with a two-stepped square base. The main inscription is incised and painted in black on the west face of the plinth, stating: "IN MEMORY OF/ THE BRAVE MEN/ OF THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1918/ GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN/ THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY/ DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS."
The names of the fallen soldiers are incised on the south and north faces of the plinth. Additionally, there is an inscription on the upper step of the base that reads: "WORLD WAR/ 1939 – 1945/ (4 NAMES)."
Local climate
Knodishall 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 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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