Occold War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Occold War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- hushed-remnant-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Occold War Memorial, Burial Ground, Church Street, IP23 7PW
- OS grid reference
- TM 155 708
- Coordinates
- 52.29304, 1.15988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Occold War Memorial is a stone structure erected in 1920 by the stonemasons Messrs Perfitt of Diss, following the First World War. It is located in the burial ground to the south of Church Street and the Church of St Michael, which is a Grade II*-listed building.
The memorial features a tall, elongated Latin stone cross with a tapering octagonal shaft. This shaft is mounted on an octagonal plinth, which in turn rests on a two-stepped octagonal base. On the front (north-east) face of the plinth, there is an inscription in leaded lettering that reads: "TO THE/ GLORY OF GOD,/ AND IN GRATEFUL/ MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF THIS/ PARISH, WHO FELL/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914–1918." Additionally, the names of 15 members of the community who lost their lives are inscribed on the north and east faces of the plinth.
Local climate
Occold 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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