Hever War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 2019. War memorial.
Hever War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- gentle-parapet-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 2019
- Type
- War memorial
- OS grid reference
- TQ 476 448
- Coordinates
- 51.18391, 0.11078
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hever War Memorial is a First World War memorial, unveiled in 1920, with later additions for the Second World War. It is made of red Hollington stone and is located in the north-west corner of the churchyard of the Church of St Peter, which is a Grade I listed building. The memorial is situated to the north of Church Cottage and Ghyll Cottage, which are both Grade II listed.
The memorial features a wheel cross with foliate decoration carved on the cross head, which sits atop a tapering shaft. The cross shaft rises from a two-stepped plinth, with the upper step being square in plan and the lower step octagonal in plan. The entire memorial is set on an octagonal base.
On the north face of the upper step of the plinth, there is an inscription that reads "TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918." The names of nine individuals who fell in that conflict are incised on the east and west faces of the plinth. The north face of the lower step of the plinth is inscribed with "1939 – 1945," along with the names of six individuals who are recorded on the north-east and north-west faces.
Local climate
Hever War Memorial receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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