The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Cenotaph is a Grade II* listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1974. Cenotaph. 1 related planning application.
The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Cenotaph
- WRENN ID
- outer-buttress-onyx
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1974
- Type
- Cenotaph
- Address
- The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Cenotaph, Brenchley Gardens, ME14 1QN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 758 561
- Coordinates
- 51.27715, 0.52039
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Cenotaph is a memorial made of Portland stone, located at the junction of paths in the north-east part of Brenchley Gardens. It is designed in the style of Luyens’ cenotaph in Whitehall, London, and stands on a rectangular stone platform with three steps. The cenotaph has a rectangular shape and features a plain chest tomb with a moulded cover at the top, upon which lies a laurel wreath. This tomb is supported by a three-stage base, which is set back towards the upper section, and beneath it is a two-stage base with cyma recta moulding at the foot of the shaft.
The cenotaph has minimal decorative features. At the upper corners of the shaft, there are carved stone bosses with laurels suspended by stone fillets. Inscriptions on the south-east and north-west faces commemorate the glorious dead of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, noting a total of 6,866 ranks, as well as an additional 1,663 ranks. The north-east face above the wreath displays the date MCM/XIX, and below it MCM/XLV; the south-west face shows MCM/XIV above the wreath and MCM/XXXIX below it.
Local climate
The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Cenotaph sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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