Wrentham War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Memorial.
Wrentham War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- woven-screen-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Wrentham War Memorial, C22m South of St Nicholas's Church, the Churchyard, Church Corner, NR34 7LD
- OS grid reference
- TM 489 829
- Coordinates
- 52.38829, 1.65688
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wrentham War Memorial is located in the churchyard of the Church of St Nicholas, which is a Grade I-listed building, and is near the Grade II-listed Rectory, Church Corner Cottage, Church Room, and Crossways Cottage. The memorial features a Celtic cross adorned with detailed interlace patterns carved in relief on both the cross-head and cross-shaft. It is set on a tapering pedestal designed to resemble a rocky outcrop, topped with a narrow cap and featuring an inscription panel on both the front and rear. Made of pale grey granite, the memorial stands approximately 2.7 meters tall.
The main dedicatory inscription, made with applied metal lettering, states: "THIS CROSS WAS ERECTED BY THE REV./ E.R. YERBURGH, RECTOR OF WRENTHAM,/ IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF WRENTHAM/ WHO DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918./ ARMY (18 NAMES) NAVY (8 NAMES)." The inscription on the rear reads: "ARMY/ (3 NAMES)/ 1939-1945/ (11 NAMES)."
Local climate
Wrentham War Memorial receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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