Great Barton War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 2018. War memorial.
Great Barton War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- patient-ashlar-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Great Barton War Memorial, Churchyard of the Holy Innocents, Church Road, IP31 2QS
- OS grid reference
- TL 890 660
- Coordinates
- 52.26051, 0.76832
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Great Barton War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1921. It is located in the churchyard near the main entrance gate, to the north-east of the Church of the Holy Innocents, which is a Grade I-listed building.
The memorial is made of Portland stone and features a Greek cross on top of a tapering octagonal shaft with a moulded foot. This shaft rises from a small octagonal pedestal that sits on a wide octagonal plinth. The plinth has a flat stone cap with a moulded cornice underneath and rests on a moulded foot. The entire structure is set on a two-stepped, square base. All the lettering on the memorial is incised.
The main inscription is located on the north-east face of the plinth and reads: "ERECTED/ TO THE MEN OF/ THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918." The names of 22 parishioners who died in the First World War are inscribed on the other faces of the plinth, with the 23rd name appearing on the north-west face of the plinth foot.
Local climate
Great Barton 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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