Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cenotaph (including area Walls and Steps)
Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1995
- Community
- Barry
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.40452, -3.27495
- Cadw reference
- 15887
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
To E of main entrance to Memorial Hall.
History
Unveiled November 1932; probably by E R Hinchsliff, borough surveyor.
Exterior
Reconstituted stone war memorial with inscriptions "In proud memory of the men of Barry who fell in the Great War, 1914-1918, 1939-1945", "For freedom". Central core of truncated tapering obelisk has, to each side, narrower vertical plain panel stepped down; panels on base with inscriptions in Welsh and English. Cenotaph set within slightly raised octagonal area bounded by low walls with steps between.
Nearby in the register
- Former Caretaker's Cottage at former Polytechnic of WalesDomesticunder 1 mi
- College Fields Nursing HomeEducationunder 1 mi
- Vale Resource CentreCommercialunder 1 mi
- Springbank Nursing HomeEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.