Chislehurst War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Bromley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 2017. War memorial.
Chislehurst War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- endless-chimney-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bromley
- Constituency
- Eltham and Chislehurst MP: Clive Efford (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Chislehurst War Memorial, Junction of Centre Common Road and Bromley Road, London Borough of Bromley, BR7 5PQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 443 702
- Coordinates
- 51.41249, 0.07393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chislehurst War Memorial is located prominently on the northwest side of the junction of Centre Common Road and Bromley Road. Standing at 7.3 meters tall, the memorial features a cross made of Portland stone, modeled after the Imperial (later Commonwealth) War Graves Commission Cross of Sacrifice. The cross is positioned atop a three-stage octagonal plinth, which itself rests on an octagonal base.
Inscriptions are present on all three stages of the plinth. The top stage has an inscription that wraps around its drum, reading, from the front face, "IN PROUD/ AND GRATEFUL/ MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF/ CHISLEHURST/ FALLEN IN/ THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1919." Below this, the names of the fallen are incised on the plinth, starting alphabetically on the front face. Originally, 186 names were recorded, and this number has now increased to 189.
On the front face of the middle stage, there is an inscription commemorating the Second World War, reading "1939/ 1945." Additionally, a small bronze tablet on this stage states, "ALSO REMEMBERED/ WITH GRATEFUL APPRECIATION/ THOSE WHO, SINCE THE SECOND WORLD WAR,/ HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES IN CONFLICTS/ AND PEACE-KEEPING MISSIONS/ THROUGHOUT THE WORLD."
The names of 65 individuals who fell in the Second World War are inscribed on the bottom stage of the plinth, along with the inscription "THEY GAVE US PEACE/ BY THEIR WARFARE/ AND LIFE BY THEIR DEATH," which was part of the original design for the First World War. The memorial is surrounded by a lawn with a flower border and an octagonal stone kerb.
Local climate
Chislehurst War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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