Darsham War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 2018. War memorial.
Darsham War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- still-latch-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Darsham War Memorial, The Churchyard, Church of All Saints, the Street, IP17 3QA
- OS grid reference
- TM 420 699
- Coordinates
- 52.27412, 1.547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Darsham War Memorial is a tall structure located in the churchyard, outside the west wall of the Church of All Saints, which is a Grade I-listed building. It is made from white Sicilian marble and features a Latin cross that rises from the moulded collar of a tapering octagonal shaft. The head of the cross is decorated with a small cross floretty, which is carved in low relief. The cross shaft is supported by a five-stepped base.
The main inscription, made of applied metal lettering, is found on the west face of the stepped base and reads as follows:
(top step) THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919
(second step) IN HONOURED MEMORY/ OF OUR FALLEN/ HEROES
(third step) (5 NAMES)
(fourth step) (11 NAMES)/ “THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE.”
Additionally, there is another inscription in raised leaded lettering on the south face of the stepped base, which states:
(second step) THE WORLD WAR/ 1939-1945/ IN MEMORY OF
(third step) (4 NAMES)/ “THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE.”
Local climate
Darsham 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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