Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Chalk landscape feature
- District
- Sevenoaks
- Town
- Shoreham
- County
- Kent
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: September 1921
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries - Dedicated
Date: September 1921
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
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Current location
ON A HILLSIDE EAST OF MEENFIELD WOOD TO WEST OF VILLAGE
Cross Field
Off Filston Lane
Shoreham
Sevenoaks
Kent
TN14 7TU
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 51476 61966
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Chalk cross carved into the hillside, with stone tablet at the head of the cross. Surrounded by a low perimeter fence.
- Inscription
- TO THE GREAT CREATOR/ IN GRATITUDE/ FOR ALL THOSE MEN OF/ SHOREHAM/ WHO LOST THEIR LIVES/ IN THE 1914-1918 WAR/
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: height 100FT, width 58FT
Materials: Chalk - Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Portland - Fence/ Railing
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Cross
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Men of Shoreham
- WMO ID: 122303
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 09-06-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 1989: re-chalked. 1963: re-chalked.
- Costs
Site: Peppercorn rent
Comments: The peppercorn rent is paybale to the Milmay Estate
Memorial: £202 5s 6d- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- War Memorials Trust WM1534 www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=139
- Details of Grade 2 listing by Historic England. historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1474978?section=official-listing Accessed 15/12/2021
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