Beck Row War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 2018. War memorial.
Beck Row War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- sunken-brick-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Beck Row War Memorial, C40m South of Beck Row Primary School, the Street, Bury St Edmunds, Holywell Row and Kenny Hill, IP28 8AE
- OS grid reference
- TL 694 773
- Coordinates
- 52.36786, 0.48792
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Beck Row War Memorial is a tall memorial made of Portland stone, located on a small grassed area at the junction of The Street and Lamble Close. It features a tall obelisk set on a low square plinth, which has a three-stage base.
The main inscription appears on the south-west face of the plinth, engraved on a granite plaque set into the Portland stone. It reads: "FOR LIBERTY AND JUSTICE/ THIS MEMORIAL WAS/ ERECTED IN GRATEFUL/ MEMORY OF THE MEN/ OF BECK ROW/ HOLYWELL ROW/ AND WILDE STREET/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914–1919/ AND/ WORLD WAR II 1939 - 1945/ THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ THEIR SPIRITS TO GOD."
Names of those commemorated from the First World War are listed on granite plaques set into the sides of the plinth and the upper stage of the base. The names from the Second World War are on a similar plaque on the base, and the name of a civilian, Martha Brightwell, is incised into the middle stage of the base.
The memorial is surrounded by a small square area defined by paving and gravel, with four corner posts that support a chain.
Local climate
Beck Row War Memorial sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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