Temple of Remembrance, Ipswich Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 May 2005. Temple of Remembrance.
Temple of Remembrance, Ipswich Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- odd-sandstone-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 May 2005
- Type
- Temple of Remembrance
- Address
- Temple of Remembrance, Ipswich Cemetery, Belvedere Road
- OS grid reference
- TM 176 459
- Coordinates
- 52.06929, 1.17383
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Temple of Remembrance in Ipswich Cemetery is a memorial building constructed in 1935, designed by J A Sherman. It is made of red brick with ashlar dressings and features a copper dome. The building has a square plan and is two stories tall.
The main facade showcases a central projecting curved portico supported by slender stone columns, which holds a flat roof. It features central double panel doors flanked by two casement windows on either side, all adorned with blind arched heads. Above the portico, there are five small square windows, with three similar windows on each side.
The other three facades are similar in design, each featuring three tall and narrow central windows on both floors, with the lower row having blind arched heads. On either side of both floors, there are rows of three square windows with raised brick surrounds.
The central dome is supported by 24 short stone columns and has 24 small casements, culminating in a shallow copper dome topped with an elongated circular cupola and a copper finial.
Inside, the ground floor consists of a series of marble-lined rooms connected by segmental arches. These rooms are adorned with remembrance plaques for those who have been cremated. The interior includes a foyer that displays memorial tablets for those who died in the war.
Local climate
Temple of Remembrance, Ipswich Cemetery 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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