Bury St Edmunds War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 2020. War memorial.
Bury St Edmunds War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- fading-hammer-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 2020
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Bury St Edmunds War Memorial, Angel Hill, IP33 1UZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 855 642
- Coordinates
- 52.24555, 0.71574
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bury St Edmunds War Memorial is a First World War memorial built in 1921, with alterations made after the Second World War and later. It is constructed from Clipsham stone and is prominently located at the corner of Angel Hill, near the medieval Abbey Gate. The memorial stands 4.5 meters high and features a large wheel-cross atop a three-stepped octagonal base.
On the west face of the upper step, there is a recessed panel with the dates 1914-1919 and 1939-1945 incised into it. Below this, the west face of the second step bears the inscription: "IN PROUD AND THANKFUL MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF BURY ST EDMUNDS / WHO WENT TO THE GREAT WARS / AND LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM." The eastern faces of the base are inscribed as follows: on the upper step, "TO / THE GLORIOUS DEAD," and on the second step, "LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER / SEE TO IT / THAT THEY BE NOT FORGOTTEN." The north face of the second step includes the inscription: "THE ROLL OF HONOUR WHICH RESTS ON A LECTERN / IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST JAMES / CONTAINS THE NAMES OF 427 MEN OF THIS TOWN / WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE." Finally, the south face of the second step states: "THIS MEMORIAL CROSS / WAS UNVEILED BY / GENERAL LORD HORNE GCB KCMG / ON THURSDAY OCTOBER 13th 1921."
Local climate
Bury St Edmunds 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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