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Cenotaph (including area Walls and Steps)

Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, designated on 30 March 1995.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Cenotaph (including area Walls and Steps), Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1858 · 20. Bridgewater. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1898 · 263 Cardiff (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1913 · Sheet 110. Cardiff & Mouth of the Severn. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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