Gravesend War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 2016. War memorial. 2 related planning applications.
Gravesend War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- brooding-spindle-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Gravesend War Memorial, Windmill Hill Gardens, Clarence Place, Kent, DA12 1HH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 649 734
- Coordinates
- 51.43621, 0.37208
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gravesend War Memorial is located in the Windmill Hill Conservation Area within Windmill Hill Gardens, set in the center of a landscaped circular garden. Paths lead to all four sides of the memorial, which features four steps at the front and three steps at the back. The memorial includes a bronze statue of a winged Victory holding a laurel wreath in her right hand, positioned on a tall square granite plinth that sits atop a larger square granite base with two steps.
On the front face of the plinth, there is a carving of a wreath with a torch in the center. Below this carving is the inscription: "ERECTED/ IN PROFOUND AND GRATEFUL/ REMEMBRANCE OF THE MEN/ OF GRAVESEND WHO FELL IN/ THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919/ NOT ONCE OR TWICE IN OUR ROUGH ISLAND STORY/ THE PATH OF DUTY WAS THE WAY TO GLORY." Beneath this inscription are two columns of names, and on the lower plinth is the inscription: "IN GRATEFUL AND ENDURING/ 1939- REMEMBRANCE- 1945/ OF ALL THOSE MEMBERS OF THE ARMED/ FORCES AND CIVILIANS OF THIS BOROUGH/ WHO FELL IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR." Below this is the inscription "HIS," with a cross through the center of the letter H.
Each of the other three faces of the memorial also features two columns of names. On the back face, above the names, is a carving of the town coat of arms accompanied by the inscription "DECUS ET TUTAMEN."
Local climate
Gravesend 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
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