Aldringham War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Memorial.
Aldringham War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- carved-vestry-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Aldringham War Memorial, Churchyard of the Church of St Andrew, Church Lane, Aldringham Cum Thorpe, IP16 4QT
- OS grid reference
- TM 451 602
- Coordinates
- 52.18576, 1.58536
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Aldringham War Memorial is a First World War memorial that includes later additions for the Second World War. It is located on the south side of the churchyard, at the end of an avenue of clipped yew trees, near the Church of St Andrew and the Ogilvie Almshouses.
The memorial features an elaborately carved stone calvary cross with a tapering octagonal shaft and foot, set on an octagonal plinth and a two-stepped octagonal base.
The main inscription is in incised and black-painted lettering on the plinth. On the north-east face, it reads: “YEA THOU I WALK/ THROUGH THE VALLEY/ OF THE SHADOW/ OF DEATH/ I WILL FEAR NO EVIL/ FOR/ THOU ART WITH ME.” The north face honors Lieutenant Alexander Walter Ogilvie, stating: “IN/ PROUD AND LOVING/ MEMORY/ OF/ LIEUTENANT/ ALEXANDER WALTER/ OGILVIE/ (MT ATTACHED/ 65TH SIEGE BATTERY)/ WHO GAVE HIS LIFE/ FOR HIS COUNTRY/ OCTOBER 30TH 1918.” The north-west face commemorates “THAT GREAT HOST/ OF/ HEROES/ WHO MADE/ THE/ SUPREME SACRIFICE/ 1914 –1918,” while the west face acknowledges “ALSO TO THE/ SUCCEEDING/ GENERATION/ WHO MADE/ THE/ LIKE SACRIFICE/ 1939 – 1945.”
Local climate
Aldringham 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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