Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Brynamman War Memorial
Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 2 August 2002
- Locality
- Lower Brynamman
- Town
- Ammanford
- Community
- Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.80798, -3.86855
- Cadw reference
- 26819
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 1860 "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in Lower Brynamman on the SE side of Amman Road just S of the road bridge over the Afon Aman.
History
War memorial, c1922 to the men of Brynamman and Lower Brynamman killed in the Great War. The memorial stands on a raised platform reached by flight of broad steps, and is enclosed by whitewashed rendered walls and railings with tall whitewashed piers.
Exterior
War Memorial, polished pale grey granite cenotaph with darker grey granite plaques. Two steps, two-step plinth with ogee top moulding, tall pedestal with inset large front plaque and moulded cornice with frieze above. Top sarcophagus with plinth, raised plaque to front, cornice and pyramid capstone. Sarcophagus has '1914-1918 Rhag anghofio o honon' inscribed. Main plaque has 'Cofeb serch ardalwyr Brynamman iw bechgyn a gollod eu bywyd yn y Rhyfel Mawr' above two columns of names.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-designed First World War memorial in a prominent location.
Nearby in the register
- Furnace bank at former Amman Iron WorksIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Milestone opposite Banwen PlaceTransportunder 1 mi
- Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen War MemorialCommemorative1 mi
- Christ ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.