Boer War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1997. War memorial.
Boer War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- haunted-hall-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1997
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Boer War Memorial, Cornhill, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 852 643
- Coordinates
- 52.24608, 0.71249
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Boer War Memorial in Bury St Edmunds commemorates the 193 Suffolk men who died in the Boer War. It was constructed in 1904 by AG Walker and is made of stone. The memorial is located on an island site in the center of Cornhill, standing on a low raised platform paved with stone setts and surrounded by iron railings with low square vase-shaped stone posts.
The monument resembles a stone rectangular table tomb, featuring small moulded pillars at the corners and egg-and-dart ornamentation around the top. Each face of the tomb is panelled, with the panels on the south, east, and west sides displaying the names of those who were killed. The north face bears the inscription "VULNERATUS NON VICTUS" above the arms of West Suffolk, along with the words: "THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY SUFFOLK PEOPLE AS A MEMORIAL TO SUFFOLK SOLDIERS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR 1899-1902."
On the lid of the tomb, a bare-headed soldier is depicted seated in a defensive posture, holding a rifle, with his fallen helmet resting on the rocks below.
Local climate
Boer 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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