Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
War Memorial in Morriston Park
Morriston, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 30 September 1993
- Community
- Morriston
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.66803, -3.93249
- Cadw reference
- 11743
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
Fifty metres NW of lodge at entrance of park near junction of Vicarage Road and Pleasant Street.
History
War memorial; circa 1920.
Exterior
Bronze statue of female figure (probably 'Peace') with winged head-dress holding orb on high classicising granite plinth. Inscriptions to front and rear in Welsh and English, and to sides, names of those lost in World Wars.
Nearby in the register
- Capel TabernacleReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Seion ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St JohnReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Danbert House (former Employment Exchange)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.