Smeeth War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 2017. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Smeeth War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-roof-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 2017
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- TR 071 395
- Coordinates
- 51.11791, 0.95914
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Smeeth War Memorial receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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