St Edmund's Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 December 2018. Monument.
St Edmund's Monument
- WRENN ID
- dusted-ember-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 December 2018
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TM 183 766
- Coordinates
- 52.34485, 1.20353
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Edmund's Monument is a commemorative memorial in the form of a cross, erected in the mid-19th century. It marks the legendary site where Edmund, King of East Anglia and later St Edmund the Martyr, Patron Saint of England, was executed by the Danes in AD 870. The shaft of the monument was replaced after storm damage in 1907.
The monument is made of ashlar stone and red brick. It features a tapered rectangular stone shaft that ends in an Alisée Patée cross head. The shaft rises from a triple-stepped stone plinth and bears the inscription 'SAINT EDMUND THE MARTYR / A.D. 870 / OAK TREE FELL AUG.1843 [sic] / BY ITS OWN WEIGHT.' Above this inscription is a recessed panel that contains a relief carving of a crown set against crossed arrows. The entire structure stands on a plain base made of red brick.
Local climate
St Edmund's Monument 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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