Lidgate War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 2019. War memorial.
Lidgate War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- brooding-clay-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Lidgate War Memorial, St Mary's Churchyard, St Edmundsbury, CB8 9PT
- OS grid reference
- TL 720 581
- Coordinates
- 52.19448, 0.5163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lidgate War Memorial is a First World War memorial erected in 1921, with a later addition for the Second World War. It is prominently located in the churchyard and is carved from stone. The memorial features a Maltese cross-head and a tapering shaft, which is set upon a square, outswept, two-stage plinth and a single-stepped base. The centre of the cross includes a relief carving of a wreath with the initials IHS at its centre, and all faces of the memorial have raised edging.
The front face of the plinth bears a dedicatory inscription that reads: "1914 – 1918/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/ (NAMES)/ WHO DIED IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914 – 1918/ SONS OF THIS PLACE, LET THIS OF YOU BE SAID,/ THAT YOU WHO LIVE, ARE WORTHY OF YOUR DEAD,/ THESE GAVE THEIR LIVES, THAT YOU WHO LIVE MAY REAP/ A RICHER HARVEST, ERE YOU FALL ASLEEP."
Local climate
Lidgate 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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