Keston War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Bromley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 2015. War memorial.
Keston War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- last-pedestal-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bromley
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Keston War Memorial, located on the western edge of Keston Common, is a Grade II listed structure made of Portland stone with bronze decorations and plaques. The memorial features a 3.9-meter high stylized Latin cross with a broad face and supporting buttresses on all four sides, standing on a low square base.
The front face displays a bronze laurel wreath and two bronze plaques beneath it. The top plaque is inscribed with ‘TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD/ 1914-1919’, listing the names of 30 fallen soldiers, followed by the phrase ‘THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE’. A smaller plaque below commemorates those lost in the Second World War with the inscription ‘IN MEMORIAM 1939-1945’, listing the names of nine servicemen and 14 local civilians who died during that conflict.
Additionally, at the base of one of the buttresses, a small metal plaque reads ‘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’.
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