Martyrs' Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. Memorial.
Martyrs' Memorial
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-paling-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1987
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Martyrs' Memorial, Station Road, Staplehurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 785 437
- Coordinates
- 51.165, 0.55249
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Martyrs' Memorial is a memorial built in 1904, located on Staplehurst Station Road. It is constructed from ashlar stone and features a plinth with a chamfered base and a moulded cornice, which sits on a chamfered rendered base. At the top, there is an obelisk with raised ashlar verges that frame tooled panels. A bronze plaque on the memorial is inscribed with the dedication: "This Monument is Dedicated to the Memory of Alice Potkins, Joan Bradbridge and Alice Benden of Staplehurst, also of Edmund Allen and Katherine his wife, of Frittenden, who for the faith suffered death 1556 · 1557 during the Marian persecution." The memorial was erected by the Protestants of Staplehurst and District and is surrounded by iron railings with curved spikes.
Local climate
Martyrs' Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% 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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