Great Finborough War Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 2018. War memorial.
Great Finborough War Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- ghost-corbel-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Great Finborough War Memorial Cross, C70m South-East of the Church of St Andrew, the Churchyard, Church Road, IP14 3AD
- OS grid reference
- TM 014 578
- Coordinates
- 52.18252, 0.94486
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Great Finborough War Memorial Cross is located inside the main entrance to the churchyard, near the Church of St Andrew. It features a wheel-head cross on a rectangular column, which is raised on a three-stepped square base. Made from pale grey granite, the memorial stands approximately 2.1 meters high.
The main inscription around the front face of the wheel of the cross head reads "FOR KING AND COUNTRY/ AUG 4 1914 JUNE 28 1919." The names of those commemorated from the First World War are listed on the front face of the column. Additionally, there is an inscription on the south face of the column that reads "3 SEPT 1939/ TO/ 2 SEPT 1945/ (3 NAMES)."
Local climate
Great Finborough War Memorial Cross 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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