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
Country: England
Type: War memorial
Source: Historic England listing

Description

War memorial, erected 1920.

A Cornish granite memorial in the form of a Celtic cross mounted on a tall tapering plinth on a shallow base, set on stepped paving.

The face of the shaft, and of the cross, is enriched with intertwined foliate designs and circular motifs above an inscription: 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 are of tooled granite. The plinth is inscribed with the names of the 99 fallen.

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