Tunbridge Wells War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 2011. War memorial. 1 related planning application.
Tunbridge Wells War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- standing-lancet-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 June 2011
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Tunbridge Wells War Memorial, Mount Pleasant Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 584 395
- Coordinates
- 51.13303, 0.26365
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tunbridge Wells War Memorial is a stone structure featuring a bronze figure and plaques, located in front of the town's civic complex, which includes the town hall and the public library and museum. The memorial consists of a smooth-faced stone wall that is set back approximately 1.5 metres from the pavement edge, with returning wings. At the center of the wall is a raised plinth that supports a bronze figure of a soldier, who is fully equipped for combat, holding a rifle with a bayonet lowered across his body, with his helmet placed at his feet. The plinth bears the inscription in bronze letters: "OUR GORIOUS DEAD / 1914 - 1918 / HONOUR GRATITUDE / PRAISE / 1939 - 1945," with a carved relief of a laurel wreath below.
The wall is adorned with bronze plaques that list the Roll of Honour. Each of the flanking wings features a bronze lamp with a laurel garland carved beneath it.
Local climate
Tunbridge Wells War Memorial receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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