Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
War Memorial at Christ Church
Prestatyn, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, designated on 12 September 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 12 September 2001
- Locality
- Prestatyn
- Community
- Prestatyn
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.33374, -3.40251
- Cadw reference
- 25743
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 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1885 · OS One-Inch (Hills) 1885-1903 (National Library of Scotland)
- 1898 · 95 Rhyl (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1930 · OS Popular Edition 1919-1947 (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Location
Close to the west end of Christ Church, within the churchyard.
History
Built in c1919-1923 to the design of L W Barnard, who was also architect for the completion of Christ Church in 1927.
Exterior
An octagonal monument in oolitic limestone and in late Gothic form, in three stages. The lowest has bronze plaques recording the fallen in the Great War and additional plaques for the names of the fallen in the Second World War. The second stage, slightly reduced, consists of blind tabernacles beneath crocketted ogee arches, with a band of two quatrefoils in each bay at foot. One tabernacle is trefoil-headed and contains a statue of a soldier of the Great War with arms reversed. The top stage, further reduced, is of eight openings with crocketted ogee headed arches and separating buttresses, the latter braced by little flying-buttresses to the finials of the lower buttresses. Gargoyles at the top and bottom of the top stage and further quatrefoil sinkings between. Top finials crocketted.
The base is four ashlar steps in local limestone, on a paved platform.
Reason for designation
A fine memorial of the Great War, in late Gothic form with carved stonework of superior craftsmanship, by the same architect as the completion of Christ Church.
Nearby in the register
- Lychgate at Christ ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Christ ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Christ Church VicarageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Presents With A DifferenceCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.