Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gwespyr War Memorial
Llanasa, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 30 April 2001
- Locality
- Gwespyr
- Community
- Llanasa
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.33600, -3.33719
- Cadw reference
- 25078
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 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At the S end of the village and set back from the main road through the village opposite Kelston Court
History
Erected in 1897 by Sir Pyers William Mostyn of Talacre Abbey to mark the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria. It was remodelled as a war memorial in 1919 to the design of R Drure of Talacre.
Exterior
War memorial comprising a stone tablet set into a battered revetment wall of snecked, rock-faced stone. The tablet, engraved with a roll call in black letters, has panelled pilasters with cornice and segmental pediment. At the base of the pilasters are the makers name and a inscription commemorating the laying of the stone by Constance Lady Bates in 1919. The tablet is flanked by concave mouldings to the raked flanking walls, whose outer sides terminate in simple piers with ball finials (attached to which are later blockwork walls enclosing a small forecourt in front of the memorial). Below the memorial tablet is a foundation tablet laid in 1897.
Reason for designation
Listed for social-historical interest and as a well-detailed memorial in a prominent location.
Nearby in the register
- 2 Pentre UchaCommercialunder 1 mi
- 1 Pentre UchaDomesticunder 1 mi
- HenllystanDomesticunder 1 mi
- CartrefDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.