Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
War Memorial
Lampeter Velfrey, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 15 October 1997
- Locality
- Lampeter Velfrey Village
- Community
- Lampeter Velfrey
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.79784, -4.67703
- Cadw reference
- 18989
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
In a recess formed in the S wall of the churchyard, facing the village street.
History
War Memorial of the Great War, unveiled in 1921 by P Davidson, a local man crippled in the war.
Exterior
Grey granite war-memorial consisting of a Celtic cross with tapering shaft and interlace decoration, standing on a two-part base, the upper part tapering and bearing the inscribed names of the fallen from the parish of Lampeter Velfrey in the Great War. The lower part of the base is a square block upon which a marble slab has been fixed to record the fallen of the Second World War.
The memorial stands on a concrete plinth with chamfered top edge. It is set at the front of a flight of four rounded limestone steps rising to the rear, all within a half-round recess in the churchyard wall faced in battered roughly-coursed limestone masonry.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good eample of a Celtic revival war memorial, which forms a group with the Church of Saint Peter.
Nearby in the register
- Telephone Call-box to SE of St Peter's ChurchCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Church of St. PeterReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- CastellRingworkunder 1 mi
- Llan Burial ChamberChambered Tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.