Kingston upon Thames War Memorial is a Grade II* listed building in the Kingston upon Thames local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1983. War memorial. 3 related planning applications.
Kingston upon Thames War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- dim-mantel-dock
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Kingston upon Thames
- Constituency
- Kingston and Surbiton MP: Ed Davey (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1983
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Kingston upon Thames War Memorial, Memorial Garden, Union Street, Greater London, KT1 1RP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 179 692
- Coordinates
- 51.41041, -0.30495
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kingston upon Thames War Memorial is located within the gated memorial gardens on the site of a former burial ground in Memorial Garden, Union Street.
The memorial features a bronze sculpture of a male warrior standing on a granite pedestal, which is flanked by low walls and set on a stepped base. The sculpture depicts a nude man holding a flaming cross while standing over a serpent that he is killing with a sword, accompanied by two children who shelter at his side.
The granite pedestal displays the main inscription in applied bronze. The lower section of the pedestal, which extends onto the flanking walls, features bronze relief panels listing 624 names of those who died in the First World War. The main inscription has been updated to include a dedication to the Second World War, although no additional names were added.
Inscribed around the base of the bronze sculpture are the words: AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE / SUN AND IN THE MORNING / WE WILL REMEMBER THEM, taken from Laurence Binyon’s 1914 poem For the Fallen. On the front of the pedestal, beneath the sculpture, the inscription reads: IN HONOUR OF / THE MEN OF THIS / TOWN WHO GAVE / THEIR LIVES IN / THE GREAT WARS / 1914 – 1919 / 1939 – 1945.
Local climate
Kingston upon Thames 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
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