War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. War memorial.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-keep-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, the Street, Benenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 810 328
- Coordinates
- 51.06655, 0.58208
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial in Benenden, dating from around 1920, features a bronze seated statue of a woman in flowing robes. She leans on a shield and holds a laurel wreath in her left hand. The statue is mounted on a rectangular stepped stone plinth that measures approximately 7 feet 6 inches long. An inscription on a bronze plaque at the top of the plinth reads, "To the memory of the men of Benenden who fought and died for justice and liberty in the Great War 1914-18. Their name liveth for evermore." Below this plaque, another bronze plaque lists the names of local men who died in the First World War, followed by those who died in the Second World War. The memorial was sculpted by Albert Toft and cast at Albion Art Foundry in Parsons Green.
Local climate
War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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