Witnesham War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 2020. A C20 War memorial.
Witnesham War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- second-niche-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 2020
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Witnesham War Memorial, The Street, IP6 9HN
- OS grid reference
- TM 183 501
- Coordinates
- 52.10688, 1.18716
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Witnesham War Memorial is a First World War memorial, erected around 1920, with additions for the Second World War and later conflicts. It is made of stone and is prominently located on the west side of The Street, at the junction with Hall Lane.
The memorial features a plain Celtic wheel-head cross atop a tall shaft that tapers in rectangular section from a trapezoidal plinth. The plinth is set on a three-stepped base, with the top step made of stone and the lower two steps of concrete. Surrounding the memorial is a gravelled area enclosed by concrete kerb stones.
The main inscription, in incised lettering on the plinth's south-east face, reads "IN HONOURED MEMORY OF / THE MEN CONNECTED WITH / THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE / 1914 GREAT WAR 1918 / [NAMES]." An additional inscription on the north-east face states "1939–1945 / [NAMES]," while the south-west face features the inscription "CYPRUS 1956 / [NAME]."
Local climate
Witnesham War Memorial sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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