Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Blackmill War Memorial
Ogmore Valley, Bridgend, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 28 July 1997
- Locality
- Blackmill
- Town
- Ogmore Valley
- Community
- Ogmore Valley
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.56912, -3.53950
- Cadw reference
- 18606
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
Located at the cross roads at the centre of the hamlet, where the road dips and crosses the Ogmore River.
History
Erected following the 1914-1918 war to commemorate local men killed in action.
Exterior
Built in mixed coloured granites and raised on 2 sandstone steps. A monument in Gothic style, with a gabled lower section with corner columns, standing on a mutiple moulded base. Etched granite scrollwork in the open gables over the columns. Above, the monument is reduced to an octagonal panelled section with a leaf enriched capital, on which stands the tapering octagonal shaft, rising to a terminal fleur. The monument is not signed, and the original cast iron railings have been replaced in March 1997 with steel.
Reason for designation
Included as a well designed and sculpted war memorial.
Nearby in the register
- Fox and Hounds PHCommercialunder 1 mi
- Evans chest tomb in graveyard of Paran ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Edwards monument in the graveyard of Paran ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Jenkins monument in the graveyard, Paran ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.