Cotton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 2018. Memorial.
Cotton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- north-pewter-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 2018
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Cotton War Memorial, The Churchyard, St Andrew's Church, Church Road, IP14 4QZ
- OS grid reference
- TM 070 669
- Coordinates
- 52.26132, 1.03241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cotton War Memorial is a Portland stone structure located in the churchyard to the southeast of the Church of St Andrew, which is a Grade I-listed building. The memorial features a small, ornately carved wheel-head cross that rises from the moulded top of a tapering pyramidal shaft, which is set on an elaborately carved plinth. This plinth rests on a simple base. Each face of the shaft is adorned with carved panels, while the plinth is richly decorated with blind arches that create recessed panels for inscriptions, along with crocketted corners.
The main inscription is found in incised and black-painted lettering on the east face of the plinth, which reads: "IN HONOURED AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF COTTON WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914–1919, AND AS A THANK-OFFERING TO GOD FOR VICTORY AND PEACE" with the additional phrase "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVER MORE" located on the base. The names of the fallen soldiers are recorded on the other faces of the plinth.
Surrounding the memorial is a low ornamental iron rail that encloses all four sides.
Local climate
Cotton 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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