Margate War Memorial

Heritage listing

Details This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 03/01/2017. 878/0/10080 MARGATE TRINITY SQUARE War Memorials to World War I and World War II, and surrounding walls, paving and approach 10-AUG-10 II War memorials for World War I (1922 - Designed by Robert Dalby Reeve) and World War II (1951 - Designer currently unknown) DESCRIPTION: The World War I memorial is situated on rising ground in Trinity Square, originally in front of Holy Trinity Church (the church was demolished after World War II bomb damage). The memorial is in the form of a plain market cross in Cornish granite. The floriated Latin cross has a tall tapering octagonal shaft which rises from a square base with a lancet decoration between corner buttresses. This sits atop an octagonal plinth with the dedication on the south-west face and the names of the 444 fallen on the other faces. The monument sits on a two-tier octagonal base. The cross is enclosed by a later low stone rubble wall with stone coping probably erected in 1951. The stone paving on which the memorial stands and stone paved approach with two flights of steps to the south-west dates, however, from the memorials inception. The dedication reads: IN MEMORY/ OF THOSE WHO DIED AND SUFFERED FOR/ THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR EARNING/ PRAISE AND HONOUR THAT CAN NEVER DIE/ OF THOSE, TOO, WHO WERE DONE TO DEATH/ IN THIS TOWN AND A SIGN FOR ALL TIME/ OF THANKFULNESS TO ALMIGHTY GOD/ FOR THE SAFE HOMECOMING OF SO MANY/ OF THEIR FIGHTING MEN/ AND FOR THE DELIVERANCE OF THEIR TOWN FROM/ MANY PERILS FROM THE AIR AND FROM THE SEA/ THIS CROSS/ WAS RAISED BY THE PEOPLE OF MARGATE AD 1922/ DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY. The names of the fallen are given with initials and surname. On the north-east face are two distinct lists; for ten of those kill

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.