Thurston War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Thurston War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- veiled-vestry-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Thurston War Memorial, Churchyard of the Church of St Peter, Church Road, IP31 3RU
- OS grid reference
- TL 928 652
- Coordinates
- 52.25171, 0.82406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thurston War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1920, with later additions for the Second World War. It is made from blue Forest of Dean stone and stands prominently on the western boundary of the churchyard of the Church of St Peter, facing Church Road.
The memorial features a Celtic wheel-head cross with a tapering shaft, set on a square two-stepped plinth with a single-stepped base. The arms of the cross are adorned with relief-carved interlace. The memorial reaches approximately 2.7 meters in height.
The main inscription is incised and painted in black on the lower step of the plinth, which reads on the west face: “THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE” followed by the years 1914 with one name, 1915 with two names, 1916 with three names, 1917 with one name, 1918 with five names, and on the east face, 1919 with one name. It is dedicated: “ERECTED IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF THURSTON/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY.”
Additionally, there is an inscription on the west face of the cross shaft that states: “IN/ MEMORY/ OF/ THOSE WHO/ GAVE THEIR/ LIVES DURING/ 1939 – 1945.” Nine more names are incised on the upper step of the plinth.
Local climate
Thurston War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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