Cowlinge War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 March 2018. War memorial.
Cowlinge War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-rubble-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 March 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Cowlinge War Memorial, Junction of Queen Street with Tillbrooks Hill, St Edmundsbury, CB8 9QF
- OS grid reference
- TL 714 543
- Coordinates
- 52.16125, 0.50471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cowlinge War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1921, located at the junction of Queen Street and Tillbrooks Hill, surrounded by metal railings.
The memorial is made of rough-hewn grey granite and features a wheel-head cross with raised bosses on each arm and at the center of the east face. It has a tall, four-sided shaft that rises from a tapering square plinth, which sits atop a two-stepped square base. The upper step is rough-hewn, while the lower step is made of dressed stone.
The main inscription, in leaded lettering, is on a smooth, inset panel on the east face of the plinth. It reads: "THIS MONUMENT/ WAS ERECTED BY THE/ PARISHIONERS OF COWLINGE/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914–1919/ AND ALSO IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION/ OF THE PATRIOTISM OF THE 66 LOCAL MEN/ WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY/ IN HER HOUR OF NEED."
The names of the 30 men who died are inscribed on smooth, inset panels on the north and south faces of the plinth, also in leaded lettering.
Local climate
Cowlinge 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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