Rochester War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 2017. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Rochester War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- lunar-quartz-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Rochester War Memorial, War Memorial Garden, High Street, Kent, ME1 1JY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 743 685
- Coordinates
- 51.389, 0.5041
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rochester War Memorial is a Portland stone memorial cross located in a small garden to the east of the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary of Rochester, which is a Grade I-listed building. The memorial features a tall, blind, wheel-head cross with an octagonal shaft and a moulded foot, all standing on a base. The base consists of an octagonal drum topped with a shallow circular head, and it is elevated on three octagonal steps.
On the front face of the cross, a sword is carved in low relief. The rear of the wheel-head features a carving of a warship in full sail. The inscription on the front face of the base reads "LEST WE FORGET 1914 1918," while the top step bears the dates "1939 1945."
Local climate
Rochester 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 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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