Needham Market War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 2020. Memorial.
Needham Market War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- tall-pavement-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 2020
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Needham Market War Memorial, St John the Baptist Cemetery, Barratts Lane, IP6 8BS
- OS grid reference
- TM 083 548
- Coordinates
- 52.15292, 1.04393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Needham Market War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1921, with later additions. It is made from Cornish granite and is situated in the middle of the cemetery, at the intersection of the main pathways.
The memorial features a 1.5-meter tall monolith of roughly-hewn granite, resting on a squat granite plinth and a limestone base. The western face displays a carved scroll with the main inscription in leaded letters: ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN / OF THIS PARISH IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 – 1918’, followed by the names of 46 local men who died in the conflict. The plinth is inscribed with the words: ‘THIS MEMORIAL AND LYCH GATE ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS’. At the foot of the memorial is a small flower vase that reads: ‘AT REST’.
On the rear of the monolith, there is a dressed area of stone inscribed: ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN MEMORY OF’, followed by ten names and ‘1939-1945’. The memorial is set on an earth mound and is surrounded by concrete bollards linked by chains.
Local climate
Needham Market 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 90% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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