Reculver War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 2009. War memorial.
Reculver War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- shifting-foundation-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 2009
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Reculver War Memorial, Reculver Lane
- OS grid reference
- TR 211 680
- Coordinates
- 51.36841, 1.17624
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Reculver War Memorial was erected in 1919. Located on the edge of St Mary the Virgin churchyard, it stands next to the road between Hillborough and Reculver, approximately 30 meters from the west end of the church. The memorial takes the form of a tall, roughly hewn granite stone set on a similarly rough-hewn rectangular granite plinth, facing northwest across the road. A low, semi-circular rustic stone wall surrounds the stone on the graveyard side. A carved Latin cross sits directly below the slightly curved top of the memorial, above a large, incised rectangular panel containing the inscription: "THIS STONE / WAS ERECTED BY THE PARISHIONERS OF / RECULVER IN MEMORY OF THE MEN / CONNECTED WITH THIS PARISH / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 // GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS / THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE / FOR HIS FRIENDS." Below this are the names of 18 individuals who died in World War I, divided by service (Navy and Army) with surname, year of death, and ship or regiment. Further inscriptions, added below the 1914-1918 commemoration, list the surnames and years of death of 9 individuals who died in World War II, divided by service (Royal Navy, Merchant Navy, Royal Air Force, Airborne Division). The inscriptions were renewed in 1994. The memorial commemorates the impact of both World Wars on the local community and has group value with the listed Church of St Mary the Virgin. Its robust simplicity is accentuated by its prominent location on the edge of the churchyard, looking out across fields towards the sea.
Local climate
Reculver War Memorial 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 greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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