Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Memorial to S African War
Uplands, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 25 July 1994
- Community
- Uplands
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.61144, -3.96651
- Cadw reference
- 14597
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
On Esplanade opposite SW corner of St Helen’s cricket and rugby ground
History
Formerly stood in Victoria Park, and moved to Esplanade 1930s to make room for Swansea Guildhall. Designed by Mr Littlejohn, executed by Brown’s monumental masons of Heathfield Street, Swansea.
Memorial to fallen in South African War 1900-1902. Unveiled 15 April 1904; paid for by public subscription of 1 shilling.
Exterior
Pink granite pedestal (on pale and dark grey granite step) with dark grey granite columns to angles, upper part of pedestal octagonal with bronze wreaths, and heraldic shield. White stone statue of soldier with bronze rifle protecting fallen comrade. Soldier said to have been posed for by Sgt O S Bird, PE teacher of Swansea Grammar School.
Inscriptions on pedestal record monument’s origins and names of those who fell ‘For that fair motherland which gave them birth nobly to dare, nobly to die’.
Reason for designation
Included for historic interest.
Nearby in the register
- Swansea Jack MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Cenotaph including surrounding wallsCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Patti PavilionRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Statue of William Thomas in Victoria ParkCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.