John Sanger Memorial is a Grade II* listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 2003. Memorial. 1 related planning application.

John Sanger Memorial

WRENN ID
vast-plaster-russet
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Thanet
Constituency
East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 January 2003
Type
Memorial
Address
John Sanger Memorial, St John's Cemetery, Manston Road, Margate, CT9 4LT
OS grid reference
TR 351 692
Coordinates
51.37324, 1.37786
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The John Sanger Memorial is a life-size marble sculpture of a mourning horse, featuring drapery and a bowed head. It is set on a tall pedimented marble plinth, which is decorated in relief with equestrian emblems such as a horseshoe and crossed whips, intertwined with roses and poppies. The base of the plinth prominently displays the name 'SANGER' in bold relief. On the front panel, there is an inscription dedicated to John Sanger, along with a poem. The rear of the memorial is simpler, lacking the emblems at the top, and includes a raised panel with inscriptions honoring John Sanger's wife Elizabeth, who died in 1892, and his son William Frederick, who died in 1893. The sculptor of this memorial is not known.

Local climate

John Sanger 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 greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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