Kedington War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 2021. Memorial.
Kedington War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- vast-rood-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 2021
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Kedington War Memorial, Churchyard of St Peter and St Paul, Mill Road, CB9 7NN
- OS grid reference
- TL 705 470
- Coordinates
- 52.09516, 0.48781
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kedington War Memorial is a structure built in 1921 by E C Green. It is made of Portland stone and features a cross on a tapering octagonal shaft, which sits atop an octagonal pedestal with a two-stepped octagonal base. The arms of the cross are adorned with relief-carved roses. In the late 1990s, the original inscription was replaced with new stones attached to the plinth.
The main inscription on the south face of the pedestal reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF KEDINGTON/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR THE HONOUR AND/ SAFETY OF THEIR COUNTRY/ IN TWO WORLD WARS/ 1914 – 1919/ 1939 – 1945." The names of the fallen are listed on the plinth faces: eight names on the west face, eight names on the south-west face, and two names from the First World War and four names from the Second World War on the south-east face. Additionally, the east face features another inscription that reads: "TRANQUIL YOU LIE YOUR/ KNIGHTLY VIRTUE PROVED,/ YOUR MEMORY HALLOWED IN/ THE LAND YOU LOVED."
The memorial is set within a square enclosure that is kerbed and paved, surrounded by eight low stone pillars.
Local climate
Kedington War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings