Bedingfield War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 2018. Memorial.
Bedingfield War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- hollow-plinth-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 2018
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Bedingfield War Memorial, The Churchyard, Church of St Mary, IP23 7QG
- OS grid reference
- TM 180 687
- Coordinates
- 52.27387, 1.19409
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bedingfield War Memorial is a Portland stone structure, approximately 3.3 meters tall, located prominently at the intersection of two paths in the churchyard of the Church of St Mary, which is a Grade I listed building. The memorial features a Celtic cross adorned with carved interlace patterns on the wheel-head. The cross head rises from a tapering cross shaft, which is set on a tapering plinth and a single-stepped base.
The main inscription is in incised and painted lettering on an inset panel on the front face of the cross shaft, reading: IN/ PROUD/ AND/ LOVING/ MEMORY/ OF/ THE/ MEN/ FROM/ THIS/ VILLAGE/ WHO/ GAVE/ THEIR/ LIVES/ IN/ THE/ GREAT/ WAR/ 1914–1918. Fourteen names are inscribed on the front face of the plinth, with the phrase GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS located below on the base.
Local climate
Bedingfield 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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