Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
War Memorial at Bedwellty Park
Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 14 October 1999
- Locality
- Tredegar
- Community
- Tredegar
- Unitary authority
- Blaenau Gwent
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.76898, -3.24183
- Cadw reference
- 22488
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
Bedwellty Park is located on the S side of Tredegar town centre. The War Memorial stands near the eastern boundary of the park, facing The Promenade.
History
Erected c. 1920 as a First World War Memorial. The bronze figure was sculpted by N.A. Trent of the Morris Art Foundry, London. Bedwellty House was presented, along with its grounds, to the people of Tredegar by the Morgan family of Tredegar House in 1901, for recreational purposes.
Exterior
The memorial stands on a small raised square enclosure with ashlar kerb. The structure faces E towards the road, fronted by a flight of ashlar steps. Tall tapering ashlar pedestal, the centre broken forward for bronze figure of a fully kitted soldier, standing against a tall plain Celtic Cross with wheel-head. Soldier depicted presenting arms; signed ‘N.A. Trent, London. Cast by the Morris Art Foundry, London. Inscription on plinth below reads: ‘To the Glory of God and the immortal memory of the men of Tredegar who fell in the Great War 1914-1918. They died that we might live’ Later inscription below ‘Also World War 1939-1945’.
Reason for designation
Listed as an impressively designed war memorial in attractive parkland setting.
Nearby in the register
- Boundary Stone at Bedwellty HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Bedwellty HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ice House to NW of Bedwellty HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bandstand at Bedwellty ParkRecreationalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.