Lord Kitchener Memorial, Brompton Barracks is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1998. Memorial.

Lord Kitchener Memorial, Brompton Barracks

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Medway
Constituency
Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 July 1998
Type
Memorial
Address
Lord Kitchener Memorial, Brompton Barracks, Pasley Road
OS grid reference
TQ 763 690
Coordinates
51.39309, 0.53407
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Lord Kitchener Memorial, located at Brompton Barracks, is a First World War memorial constructed around 1920. It is made of limestone ashlar and features an obelisk that stands on a stepped base atop a low, wide plinth. The base is adorned with a frieze depicting Royal Engineers soldiers, and the shaft of the obelisk is battered. This memorial is dedicated to Lord Kitchener and is part of a group of memorials aligned along the axis of the barracks.

Local climate

Lord Kitchener Memorial, Brompton Barracks 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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