Harbledown and Rough War Memorial, including steps and gate is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 2019. War memorial. 3 related planning applications.
Harbledown and Rough War Memorial, including steps and gate
- WRENN ID
- fallen-grate-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Harbledown and Rough War Memorial, including steps and gate, Church of St Michael and All Angels, Church Hill, Kent, Harbledown and Rough Common, CT2 8NW
- OS grid reference
- TR 132 581
- Coordinates
- 51.28223, 1.05587
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Harbledown and Rough War Memorial was erected in 1920 in the churchyard southeast of the Church of St Michael. This granite memorial features a rough-hewn wheel-headed cross that rises from a plinth on a two-stepped base. The south face of the plinth is recessed and displays the inscription ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN UNFADING MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF HARBLEDOWN/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR./ 1914 – 1918/ (27 NAMES)’ in black enamelled lettering. Below this, the base of the plinth reads ‘THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY/ THEIR FELLOW PARISHIONERS’. The east face of the plinth is also recessed and includes the inscription 1939 – 1945 along with the names of those who fell in the Second World War.
The memorial is situated on a tarred and shingled area in the southwest corner of the churchyard, prominently overlooking Church Hill. It is accessed from the road via a set of brick steps that lead up to a timber and ironwork gate, which bears the inscription ‘GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN’.
Local climate
Harbledown and Rough War Memorial, including steps and gate sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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