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
- Constituency
- Bromley and Biggin Hill MP: Peter Fortune (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 2015
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- TQ 415 640
- Coordinates
- 51.35797, 0.03203
- 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’.
Local climate
Keston 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 81% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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