Reydon War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Reydon War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- errant-crypt-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Reydon War Memorial, Churchyard of the Church of St Margaret of Antioch, Wangford Road, IP18 6PB
- OS grid reference
- TM 490 781
- Coordinates
- 52.34498, 1.65544
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Reydon War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920, with later additions for the Second World War. It is made of Cornish granite and is located in the churchyard to the south of the Church of St Margaret, which is listed as Grade II*.
The memorial features a Latin cross atop a tapering plinth with a single-stepped base. At the center of the cross is a relief-carved Christogram ‘IHS’. The entire structure stands approximately 2.6 meters high.
On the east face of the plinth, there is a main inscription in leaded lettering within a recessed panel that reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD, AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF REYDON, WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914 – 1919." This panel lists 29 names. Additionally, the step of the memorial bears the inscription: "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE."
On the south face of the plinth, there is an additional inscription in leaded lettering that commemorates the Second World War, stating: "1939 – 1945," along with 10 names, which include one civilian casualty.
Local climate
Reydon War Memorial receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% 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 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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