Hawkedon War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 2020. War memorial.
Hawkedon War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- strange-lancet-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 2020
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Hawkedon War Memorial, Opposite the Church of St Mary, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 4NW
- OS grid reference
- TL 796 530
- Coordinates
- 52.1463, 0.62468
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hawkedon War Memorial is a First World War memorial that was unveiled and dedicated in 1920. It is made of stone and is located in a prominent roadside position within a small hedged enclosure on the north side of the village green, to the north-west of the Church of St Mary, which is a Grade I listed building.
The memorial features a tall obelisk that tapers in an octagonal shape from a deep, square pedestal, which stands on a substantial octagonal plinth. The entire structure is set on a three-stepped base that is curved at the front (south side). On the front (south) of the base of the pedestal, there is a carved relief of the Emblem of Victory, which consists of a wreath with crossed swords, along with the words: 'THE / WAR / 1914 / 1918'. The dedicatory inscription is found on the north, east, and west faces of the pedestal, reading: 'TO THE / GLORY / OF / GOD / IN MEMORY OF / THE MEN OF / HAWKEDON / 'GREATER LOVE / HATH / NO MAN'. The names of the nine men who died in the war are inscribed on the eight faces of the octagonal plinth.
Local climate
Hawkedon 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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