Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
War Memorial
Llangollen Rural, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Froncysyllte, Llangollen, Llangollen Rural, Wrexham, designated on 11 June 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 11 June 1998
- Locality
- Froncysyllte
- Town
- Llangollen
- Community
- Llangollen Rural
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.96269, -3.08291
- Cadw reference
- 19961
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 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at S side of A5 road next to graveyard of St David's Church.
History
Erected in 1909 by public subscription to commemorate deaths of Private William Williams of Royal Welch Fusiliers and Private John James of Grenadier Guards in 1900 during South Africa War. Subsequently flanked by tablets commemorating dead of First and Second World Wars.
Exterior
Free-standing memorial in pale green and white moulded and glazed faience blocks with dark green cast-iron drinking bowl above segmental arch and recessed and inset tablet with inscription and floral leaf decoration below semi-circular arch with acanthus key-stone. Cast emblems of Royal Welch Fusiliers to left and Grenadier Guards to right. Rubble stone rear support wall and flanking walls with marble First and Second World War tablets added later.
Reason for designation
Listed as an unusually designed pre-First World War memorial, using probably locally manufactured materials.
Nearby in the register
- Lime KilnsIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Former Mount Zion Primitive Methodist Chapel and GraveyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Argoed HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cross Street Tunnel and ArchwaysNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.