Bacton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 November 2015. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Bacton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-paling-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 November 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Bacton War Memorial, The Churchyard of St Mary's Church, Church Road, IP14 4LJ
- OS grid reference
- TM 052 672
- Coordinates
- 52.26485, 1.00704
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bacton War Memorial stands within the churchyard of St Mary's Church, near the footpath from Church Road. This memorial, erected in memory of those lost in both World Wars, is constructed from Aberdeen granite and stands 2.3 metres tall. It features a blind wheel-head cross, decorated with a carved relief wreath, rising from a tapering shaft set on a tapered, square plinth. The plinth sits upon a two-stepped, rough-hewn, square base. An inscription on the face of the cross reads “THEIR NAME LIVETH / FOR / EVERMORE”. Below this, on the front face of the plinth, is the inscription "IN / GRATEFUL MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF BACTON / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1918 / HONOUR TO THE IMMORTAL DEAD.” The names of seventeen individuals who died in the First World War are listed on the side faces of the plinth. The years 1939-1945 are inscribed on the front of the cross shaft, accompanied by the notation "(8 NAMES)". All inscriptions are incised and painted black.
Local climate
Bacton 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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