Great Chart War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 2014. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Great Chart War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-basalt-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 2014
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- TQ 980 419
- Coordinates
- 51.14226, 0.82985
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Great Chart War Memorial, built in 1921, is located in a raised memorial garden that can be accessed from The Street via a flight of steps. It features a Portland Stone cross set on an octagonal pedestal, which rests on a stepped octagonal base. The cross tapers gently and has a bronze sword placed over the crosspiece. There is a carved inscription on the pedestal, highlighted in black paint, which reads: ‘TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD / THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE’, along with the names of the fallen recorded by date. On the reverse side, it states: ‘ERECTED BY THE GREAT CHART SAILORS’ AND SOLDIERS’ FUND’. Additionally, a later tablet affixed to the base commemorates those who fell in the Second World War.
Local climate
Great Chart War Memorial sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% 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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