Smeeth War Memorial

Smeeth War Memorial was unveiled in 1919 and designed by the sculptor F J Russell. It is a granite stone monument with an affixed bronze plaque, featuring a square plan-form.

The memorial is located approximately 50 meters south-west of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, on an elevated plot overlooking Church Road. The roughly-hewn granite monument stands about three meters tall and consists of a Celtic wheel cross head on a square tapered plinth, which is set upon a chamfered base. The plinth has an incised inscription on its front that reads: ‘IN MEMORY AND IN HONOUR OF / (Names) / MEN OF SMEETH WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918’. In front of the memorial is a granite flower container. A bronze plaque, which reads '1939-1945 / (names)', was added to the cross shaft in November 1947 to commemorate those who fell in the Second World War.