Eccles War Memorial Clock Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 2019. Clock tower.
Eccles War Memorial Clock Tower
- WRENN ID
- third-buttress-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Chatham and Aylesford MP: Tristan Osborne (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 2019
- Type
- Clock tower
- Address
- Eccles War Memorial Clock Tower, Recreation Ground, Bull Lane, Kent, Aylesford, ME20 7HN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 728 605
- Coordinates
- 51.31782, 0.4789
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Eccles War Memorial Clock Tower is a First World War memorial that includes later additions for the Second World War. It is constructed of stone and is located on the western edge of the Recreation Ground, overlooking Bull Lane.
The tower is square and features corner pilasters. The main section of the tower is rusticated and has a deep frieze and cornice. The east and west faces include panels with moulded surrounds and hoods, with the east face panel added after the Second World War. Each face of the upper stage has a glass-encased clock face. The tower is topped with a stepped pyramidal roof and a ball-shaped finial, and it stands on a square base surrounded by a small area of paving.
On the west face, there is a relief inscription that reads, "LET US EVER HOLD IN HONOUR THE NAMES OF THE MEN OF ECCLES WHO DIED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918." Below this, the names of the 33 individuals who fell in the First World War are inscribed. The eastern panel states, "LET US EVER HOLD IN HONOUR THE MEN OF ECCLES WHO DIED IN THE WAR OF 1939 – 1945" and lists 10 names.
Local climate
Eccles War Memorial Clock Tower sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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