Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Llanharan War Memorial
Llanharan, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanharan, Rhondda Cynon Taff, designated on 14 November 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 14 November 2000
- Locality
- Llanharan
- Community
- Llanharan
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.53858, -3.44003
- Cadw reference
- 24367
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)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1907 · 248 Pontypridd (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Prominently sited NW of the village centre
History
Erected in the 1920s but moved to its present location in 1960.
Exterior
A tall pedestal with a statue of an infantryman in battlefield dress, carved from Portland stone. The monument is set on a shallow plinth with concrete paving, part of the enclosure created in 1960. Above a shallow projecting base is a tapering pedestal, on the front of which the names of the 1914-18 war dead are engraved in black letters within a sunk panel. The sides have dedication inscriptions in English and Welsh. On the rear face the dead of the 1939-45 and Korean wars are added, above an inscription on the base recording the movement of the monument to its new location in 1960.
The monument stands in a railed enclosure of concrete paving with steel railings. Flag poles are placed flanking the memorial.
Reason for designation
Listed for social-historical interest and as a fine piece of monumental sculpture in a prominent location.
Nearby in the register
- Church of SS Julius and AaronReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Walls of upper terrace to N of Llanharan HouseGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Entrance steps to Llanharan HouseGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Llanharan HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.