Eriswell War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 2018. War memorial.
Eriswell War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- leaning-porch-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Eriswell War Memorial, Outside the Church of St Lawrence, the Street, IP27 9BH
- OS grid reference
- TL 723 780
- Coordinates
- 52.37307, 0.53101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Eriswell War Memorial is a First World War memorial that was unveiled in 1920. It is situated just outside the parish churchyard, to the south-east of the Church of St Lawrence, which is also listed as Grade II*.
The memorial is made of grey granite and features a wheel-head cross with a tapering four-sided shaft. On the east face of the cross-head and upper part of the shaft, there is a carved relief of an inverted Sword of Sacrifice, adorned with trefoils at the pommel and ends of the cross-guard. The shaft rises from a rough-hewn, tapering plinth that has four sides and sits on a single-stepped base.
The dedication is inscribed in leaded lettering within a smooth, inset panel on the east face of the plinth. It reads: "ERECTED BY THE PARISH OF ERISWELL IN MEMORY OF (8 NAMES) WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914–1919."
The memorial is surrounded by a square area of gravel, which is bordered by stone kerbs. This area is enclosed by nine posts connected by chains, with an opening on the east side for access to the memorial.
Local climate
Eriswell War Memorial sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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