Chipstead War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 2020. Memorial.
Chipstead War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- tilted-moat-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 2020
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Chipstead War Memorial, Outside Chevening Parish Hall, Homedean Road, Kent, TN13 2RU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 500 559
- Coordinates
- 51.28295, 0.15003
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chipstead War Memorial is a First World War memorial designed in 1920 by W P Banks of Dunton Green and unveiled in 1921. It is constructed from Kentish ragstone with granite tablets.
The memorial is located within the grounds of Chevening Parish Hall and the Chapel of the Good Shepherd. It features a Latin Cross atop an orb, which is set on an octagonal shaft rising from an octagonal pedestal that sits on a three-stepped base. Each face of the pedestal has recessed granite panels with incised inscriptions.
On the east face of the pedestal, the inscription reads: ‘ROLL OF HONOUR/ IN/ GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THOSE WHO FELL/ IN THE SERVICE OF/ KING AND COUNTRY/ 1914 – 1918/ AND OF THOSE WHO/ GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE WAR OF/ 1939 – 1945’. The west face bears the inscription: ‘KOREAN WAR/ (1 NAME)/ SONS OF THIS PLACE/ LET THIS OF YOU BE SAID/ THAT YOU WHO LIVE/ ARE WORTHY OF YOUR DEAD/ THESE GAVE THEIR LIVES/ THAT YOU WHO LIVE MAY REAP/ A RICHER HARVEST/ ERE YOU FALL ASLEEP/ (CROSS SYMBOL)’. The other faces of the pedestal list the names of 28 individuals who fell in the First World War and 18 who fell in the Second World War.
Local climate
Chipstead War Memorial receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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