Herringswell War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 2019. War memorial.
Herringswell War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- eastward-ledge-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Herringswell War Memorial, Junction of Kennett Road and the Street, IP28 6ST
- OS grid reference
- TL 716 700
- Coordinates
- 52.30146, 0.51551
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Herringswell War Memorial is a pillar memorial built in 1920, made from grey granite. It is located on a triangular patch of grass at a road junction to the west of the village, about 180 meters north-west of the Church of St Ethelbert, which is a Grade II* listed building.
The memorial features a large, roughly-hewn pillar with a sloping head, set on a substantial plinth and a concrete base. It stands approximately 2.4 meters tall. One side of the pillar has a finely-hewn panel with leaded lettering that reads: "THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918. / IN HONOURED MEMORY OF / (NAMES) / 'LIVE THOU FOR ENGLAND / WE FOR ENGLAND DIED.' / ALSO / (NAME) / 1939-1945 / (NAMES) / MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN / MAKES COUNTLESS THOUSANDS / MOURN."
Local climate
Herringswell War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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