Yaxley War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 2016. Memorial.
Yaxley War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- gilded-turret-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 2016
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- TM 120 739
- Coordinates
- 52.32249, 1.11064
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yaxley War Memorial was completed in February 1921, with inscriptions added after the Second World War. It was built by Hanchets monumental masons to the designs of Reverend W A Wickham. The memorial is constructed from Clipsham stone and has a square plan.
Standing approximately 4 metres tall, the monument features a Latin cross with an octagonal tapered shaft on an octagonal step, which sits atop a square-plan plinth with a corniced base and platform. The collar of the tapered shaft, located beneath the cross, is adorned with a carved crown detail. The front face of the plinth has a recessed panel inscribed with the epitaph ‘REMEMBER IN CHRIST THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR / LIVES DURING THE GREAT WAR, A.D. 1914-1918’ along with the names of eight local men who died in that conflict. After the Second World War, an additional inscription was added on the east face of the plinth, which reads '(NAMES)/ 1939 - 1945' to honor three men who fell during that war.
The memorial is located to the north of the Church of St Mary, which is listed as Grade I, and is prominently situated in the churchyard facing the junction of Old Ipswich Road and Church Lane. Opposite the war memorial, on the west side of Old Ipswich Road, is a private school house and associated dwellings, which are listed as Grade II. On the east side of Church Lane is Sewell House, also listed as Grade II.
Local climate
Yaxley War Memorial sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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