Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
War Memorial Gates
Neath, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 5 January 1989
- Community
- Neath
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.65887, -3.79554
- Cadw reference
- 11784
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
At the end of the roadway forming an entrance to the Gnoll Grounds.
Exterior
C1921 memorial gates erected in conjunction with purchase of Gnoll Estate Grounds as a Memorial Park to 1914-1918 war.
Imposing monument, with sweeping concave memorial walls, gates to centre. Influence of Sir Edwin Lutyens. White marble with stone plinth.
Broad piers form outer corners; simply moulded caps. Sunk panels, stone plaques to front bearing 1914/1918 to let pier,. 1939/1945 to right. Flanking walls sweep inwards to gateways, each bearing 3 bronze plaques.
Central double gateway with tall piers bearing deep bronze plaques, pedestrian gates to flanks with similar lower piers, sunk panels.
Good, elaborate heavy iron gates. Close set rods. Gilded scrollwork to lock and top rails, exuberant cresting to top. Bronze medallion to each gate with civic insignia. Similar detail to flanking pedestrian gates.
Nearby in the register
- Former Gate & Lodges to Gnoll HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pillar BoxCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Hugh Vaughan & Co LtdCommercialunder 1 mi
- BandstandGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.