Norton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 2020. War memorial.
Norton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- open-doorway-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 April 2020
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Norton War Memorial, The Dog Inn Car Park, Ixworth Road, Junction of the Street, IP31 3LP
- OS grid reference
- TL 957 657
- Coordinates
- 52.25509, 0.86634
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Norton War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920 by H H Martyn and Company. Names were added after the Second World War and again in 1947. It is made of Portland stone and is prominently located in the car park of the Grade II listed The Dog Inn.
The memorial features an elaborately carved Celtic wheel cross. Both the front and rear faces of the crosshead and its wheel are adorned with intricate relief-carved interlace designs. The cross-shaft is slender and tapering, with the foot also decorated with carved interlace. It stands on a trapezoidal plinth and square base, which is set upon a large, two-tiered square base that is painted white. Surrounding the memorial are eight white stone bollards connected by chains.
The monument faces the road junction, with the main inscription carved into the shaft of the cross in black-painted lettering, which reads: IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ THESE DIED/ FOR/ ENGLAND/ ––/ 1914-1919/. The names, ranks, initials, surnames, and regiments of the 23 soldiers who fell in the First World War are listed on the front and both sides of the plinth. On the rear of the plinth, there is an additional inscription: 1939-1945/ (5 NAMES)/ DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE 1947/ (1 NAME). The front edge of the base features the inscription: THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE.
Local climate
Norton War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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