Rainham war memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. War memorial.
Rainham war memorial
- WRENN ID
- odd-casement-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Gillingham and Rainham MP: Naushabah Khan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Rainham war memorial, High Street, Kent
- OS grid reference
- TQ 816 659
- Coordinates
- 51.36319, 0.60843
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rainham war memorial is a Grade II listed structure, erected in 1920. It is made of Cornish granite and takes the form of a Celtic cross, which is mounted on a tall tapering plinth that sits on a shallow base, all set on stepped paving.
The front of the shaft and the cross feature intricate designs of intertwined foliage and circular motifs, accompanied by an inscription that reads: "THIS CROSS WAS ERECTED BY THE/ INHABITANTS OF RAINHAM IN GRATEFUL/ MEMORY OF THE GALLANT MEN FROM/ THIS PARISH WHO IN THE GREAT WAR/ OF 1914-1919 GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ SONS OF THIS PLACE LET THIS OF YOU BE SAID/ THAT YOU WHO LIVE ARE WORTHY OF YOUR DEAD/ THESE GAVE THEIR LIVES THAT YOU WHO LIVE MAY REAP/ A RICHER HARVEST ERE YOU FALL ASLEEP/ 'HE WILL SWALLOW UP DEATH IN VICTORY'/ ISAIAH XXV.8/ (Names)."
The sides and rear of the memorial are crafted from tooled granite, while the plinth is inscribed with the names of the 99 individuals who lost their lives.
Local climate
Rainham war memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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