Meopham War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 2016. War memorial.
Meopham War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- odd-railing-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Meopham War Memorial, The Green, Wrotham Road, Kent, DA13 0AP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 641 652
- Coordinates
- 51.36262, 0.35631
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Meopham War Memorial is made of Portland stone and is located in the northern corner of Meopham Green, facing the road within a small garden. The memorial features a stone cross that rises from a moulded collar on an octagonal shaft, which stands on an octagonal stone plinth with a slight cornice and a two-stepped octagonal base.
The principal dedicatory inscription around the circumference of the plinth’s cornice reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF MEOPHAM WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918." The names of those who lost their lives are inscribed on the faces of the plinth.
At the foot of the memorial, there is an additional stone tablet that commemorates the losses from the Second World War, which bears the inscription: "AND TO THOSE WHO FELL IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945" along with 14 names.
Flanking the Second World War tablet are two grey granite flower vases, although these vases are not considered of special interest.
Local climate
Meopham War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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