Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
South African War Memorial in front of The Town Hall
Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Usk, Monmouthshire, designated on 1 April 1974.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 1 April 1974
- Locality
- Usk
- Town
- Usk
- Community
- Usk
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70032, -2.90469
- Cadw reference
- 2177
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 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)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the triangular central plot at the S part of New Market Street, a short distance N of the Town Hall.
History
By R Price of Abergavenny (signed). A memorial to local men named on the column who fell in the South African War of 1898-1902; erected by the inhabitants of Usk; unveiled 1908.
Exterior
War Memorial. Standing on a tooled stone base, an inscribed round grey marble column tapering from a plinth to a tiered cornice and surmounted by an urn; incised inscription facing up street to N. Situated in a small squareiron-railed enclosure.
Reason for designation
A monument of great local interest and a precursor of the more familiar later world war memorials. Group value with other listed buildings in New Market Street especially the adjacent Market Hall.
Nearby in the register
- 35 New Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 33 New Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 37 New Market StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Ivy House, and attached irailingsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.