Denston War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 2018. War memorial.
Denston War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- dusted-iron-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Denston War Memorial, Village Green, Water Lane, Newmarket, CB8 8PW
- OS grid reference
- TL 760 528
- Coordinates
- 52.14585, 0.57133
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Denston War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1921, located on the village green at the center of Denston, near several Grade II-listed buildings, including the Post Office and Stores and Cherry Tree Cottage.
The memorial is made of limestone and features a small wheel-head pointed cross above an intricately carved collar on a tapering hexagonal shaft. This shaft rises from a hexagonal plinth with a sloping cap and a moulded foot, all standing on a single-stepped, square stone base.
The plinth displays the main inscription and the names of the fallen in incised lettering. The east face of the plinth reads: "TO THE/ GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN/ GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918." The inscription continues on the west face, stating: "BUT THE MEN/ WERE VERY GOOD/ UNTO US AND WE/ WERE NOT HURT/ THEY WERE A WALL/ UNTO US BOTH BY/ NIGHT AND DAY."
The names of the 11 men who died during the First World War are inscribed on the four other faces of the plinth.
Local climate
Denston 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 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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