Guards Memorial North West of Circle Number 4 at the Brompton Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 2001. Memorial.
Guards Memorial North West of Circle Number 4 at the Brompton Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- keen-rampart-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Chelsea and Fulham MP: Ben Coleman (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 2001
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Guards Memorial North West of Circle Number 4 at the Brompton Cemetery, Old Brompton Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 255 778
- Coordinates
- 51.48592, -0.19285
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Guards Memorial, located north-west of circle number 4 at the Brompton Cemetery, is a commemorative monument built in 1889 by an unknown mason or designer. It features a tall white marble cross on a stepped base, which stands on a two-stage plinth made of grey granite with projecting angles. Surrounding the cross are eighteen trefoil-headed white marble headstones, each with names inscribed using affixed cast lead letters.
On the stepped base, there are oval reliefs depicting the badges of the three earliest Regiments of Guards: the Coldstream, Grenadier, and Scots, along with the inscription 'TRIA JUNCTA IN UNO. To the Memory of / Soldiers of the Brigade of Guards buried here since 1854 / This Cross is dedicated by their comrades/ AD 1889'. The sides of the base display relief badges of the Welsh and Irish Guards. Pyramids of heaped cannon balls are placed over the projecting angles, and gun barrels made of Portland stone extend outward from the centre of each side of the base. The marble headstones, which date from 1889 onwards, list names grouped by regiments. This memorial marks the burial place of many hundreds of peacetime casualties of the Brigade of Guards and is noted for being an imposing and unusual regimental memorial.
Local climate
Guards Memorial North West of Circle Number 4 at the Brompton Cemetery sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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