Risby War Memorial

First World War memorial, 1920, by Mr Thomas Dinham Atkinson and erected by Hanchets (stonemasons) of Bury St Edmunds with further names added after the Second World War.

MATERIALS: Weldon stone.

PLAN: the memorial stands in a prominent position on the village green surrounded by numerous listed buildings.

EXTERIOR: it is in the form of a tall, finely-carved Latin cross with a tapering square shaft resting on a two-stepped octagonal plinth and two-stepped octagonal base. On the south face of the cross is the monogram HIS and on the north face is the ancient Christian symbol of the Chi Rho.

Granite plaques bearing incised inscriptions have been inserted more recently into the plinth and upper step of the base. These appear to retain earlier wording, and read as follows: (on the south face of the plinth) IN MEMORIAM/ 1914-1919; (on the south face of the upper step of the base) THE/ SECOND WORLD WAR/ 1939-1945/ TO THE HONOURED MEMORY/ OF THE FOUR MEN OF THIS VILLAGE/ WHO DID NOT RETURN

The names of nine men who died during the First World War are inscribed on the north, west and east faces of the plinth. The names of four men who died during the Second World War are inscribed on the south-east and south-west faces of the upper step of the base.