Wateringbury War Memorial Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 2018. War memorial.
Wateringbury War Memorial Cross
- WRENN ID
- pale-marble-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 2018
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Wateringbury War Memorial Cross, The Churchyard, Church of St John the Baptist, Tonbridge Road, Kent, ME18 5PA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 685 536
- Coordinates
- 51.25687, 0.41357
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wateringbury War Memorial Cross is a granite memorial located at the edge of the churchyard of the Church of St John the Baptist, which is listed as Grade II. It is situated near a group of other monuments that are also listed as Grade II and Grade II.
The memorial cross features a tapering plinth with convex sides, raised on a four-stepped square base made of a different stone. The plain cross shaft, which is rectangular in section, has an incised outline on the front face and rises to a wheel-head cross. This cross is designed in a Celtic style and is adorned with an interlace pattern carved in low relief, along with a central hemispherical boss at the center of the cross arms. The entire structure stands approximately 4 metres high.
The plinth is inscribed with the dates 1914 - 1918 and 1939 - 1945, which are incised into the stone. This inscription is the only text on the memorial, as the names of the fallen are recorded on two separate plaques inside the church.
Local climate
Wateringbury War Memorial Cross receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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