Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Miskin War Memorial
Pont-y-Clun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 15 August 2000
- Locality
- Miskin
- Community
- Pont-y-Clun
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.51868, -3.37552
- Cadw reference
- 23913
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 the middle of the village W of the church and standing in the centre of the road at the junction of School Road and Hensol Road.
History
The pedestal has plaques attached to the sides recording those who served in the 1914-18 war and the dead of that and the 1939-45 war.
Exterior
A tall square pedestal with enriched finial, on a stepped square plinth. Above are wreaths in relief and a deep cornice with a frieze of flowers. Above are niches with one order of shafts with moulded capitals and trefoiled arches with ogee gables. In the canopies are sculpted figures of soldier, sailor and airman, while the 4th side is a robed woman holding a long scroll, representing a roll call of the dead. Above the niches the pedestal tapers and is crowned by a Celtic cross.
Reason for designation
Listed for social historical interest and for group value with Miskin Arms and St David's church.
Nearby in the register
- Telephone Call-boxCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Miskin ArmsRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Church of St DavidReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Chapel HouseReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.