Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Merthyr Tydfil War Memorial
Park, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 13 January 1988
- Locality
- Pontmorlans
- Community
- Park
- Unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.75026, -3.37697
- Cadw reference
- 11455
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set on terraced hillside above main road junction at Pontmorlais Circus.
History
ca1930. Bronze figures by L S Merrifield, 1931; cast by A B Burton, founder of Thames Ditton.
Exterior
Tall Portland stone niche with moulded arched capping, tapering sides and stepped plinth with flanking pedestals. Central bronze, mythological figure of one of the Three Fates bearing (or measuring) the Web of Life. War trophy to swagged pedestal. To sides are standing figures of a miner and a female carrying a child.
Arrangement of curved flight of steps leads down to ca1930 bronze guardrail with classical torch motif. Ironwork urns on front wall.
Nearby in the register
- Guard Rail & Steps at Merthyr Tydfil War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- FlooksCommercialunder 1 mi
- District Education Office of Mid-Glamorgan County Council (YMCA)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Thespian House at Theatre RoyalDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.