Wickhambrook War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 2019. A Modern Memorial.
Wickhambrook War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- tenth-ember-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 2019
- Type
- Memorial
- Period
- Modern
- Address
- Wickhambrook War Memorial, Wickhambrook Cemetery, Cemetery Road, CB8 8UW
- OS grid reference
- TL 745 554
- Coordinates
- 52.16985, 0.55141
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wickhambrook War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1924, with additions for the Second World War. It was designed by Charles W Waymouth of London and constructed by Messrs Farmer and Brindley of London. In the late 20th century, between 1958 and 1978, the memorial was relocated to its current position in the center of the village cemetery.
The memorial is made of Portland stone and features an elaborately carved Latin cross with a tapering, octagonal shaft. This shaft rises from a deep, tapering, octagonal plinth that sits on a three-stepped base.
On the front (north-west) face of the plinth, there is an incised leaded inscription dedicated to the First World War, beneath a shallow relief carving of the arms of Edward the Confessor. The inscription reads: IN GRATEFUL / MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF / WICKHAMBROOK / WHO LAID DOWN THEIR / LIVES IN THE / GREAT WAR / 1914 -1918.
The plinth also features a verse from Revelations 2:10 carved in shallow relief. It reads: BE THOU / FAITHFUL UNTO / DEATH [names] on the south-west face; AND I WILL GIVE / THEE' [names] on the south-east face; ETERNAL LIFE [names] on the north-east face. This last face also includes the inscription: THE NUMBER OF MEN / FROM THIS PARISH / WHO SERVED WAS 134.
The dedication for the Second World War is found on the north-west (front) face of the stepped base. It reads: 1939 - 1945 on the top step, with the names of the six men who died inscribed on the middle step. The bottom step bears the inscription: THE MEMORIAL TO THESE MEN IS IN THE VILLAGE HALL / NEAR THIS PLACE.
Local climate
Wickhambrook 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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