Westhorpe War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Westhorpe War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- narrow-granite-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Westhorpe War Memorial, Churchyard of the Church of St Margaret, Church Road, IP14 4SU
- OS grid reference
- TM 043 692
- Coordinates
- 52.28307, 0.9948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Westhorpe War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920, with later additions for the Second World War. It is made of Doulting stone and is located in the churchyard of the Church of St Margaret, which is a Grade I listed building, just outside the main southern entrance of the church.
The memorial features a tall, slender stone Latin calvary cross with a stone roof, to which a bronze figurine of Christ crucified is attached. This bronze figure was created by the Art and Book Company in London. The cross is set on a tall square plinth, which rests on a small square stone step and a larger octagonal stone base. The entire memorial stands approximately 3.3 meters high.
The main inscription is located on the lower end of the cross shaft and reads: "IN/ LOVING AND/ GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF/", with the names of the fallen listed on the front face of the plinth. Additionally, on the front face of the octagonal base, there is an inset stone with the inscription: "REST ETERNAL GRANT TO THEM O LORD/ AND LET LIGHT PERPETUAL SHINE UPON THEM." The northern face of the plinth also includes an additional inscription: "1939 –1945/ (2 NAMES)."
Local climate
Westhorpe War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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