Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The War Memorial
Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Hawarden, Flintshire, designated on 16 November 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 16 November 1994
- Community
- Hawarden
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.18494, -3.02724
- Cadw reference
- 15094
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Prominently situated at the junction of Gladstone Way and the Highway, facing E.
Exterior
1919-20, by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott of London. A large sandstone obelisk with gabled apex. Beneath this an ogee-headed, moulded niche with crocketted finial and flanking decorative pilasters.
Within, a sculpted figure of Christ on the Cross. Moulded base and low, coped walls infront of monument, the rear wall of which, flanking the obelisk, bears the names of those fallen in the Great War. Inscribed on base of Obelisk: "Gilbert G Scott ARA Architect." Later inset tablets recording the names of those fallen in the Second World War. Returned steps up to enclosure.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 24 The HighwayDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Village PumpGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- The Gladstone MonumentCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- 17 The HighwayDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.