Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Clock Tower and War Memorial
Penrhiwceiber, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 10 March 2003
- Locality
- Penrhiwceiber
- Town
- Mountain Ash
- Community
- Penrhiwceiber
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.66940, -3.36120
- Cadw reference
- 80941
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
Situated in the town centre, set back from the main thoroughfare, standing at the entrance to a small lane.
History
Architect W H William of Mountain Ash. Completed 1926. Reputedly stone from the old Aberdare canal to E was used in its construction. Erected by public subscription.
Exterior
Clock Tower and War Memorial. A slim structure of coursed roughly dressed stone with tooled quoins and ashlar dressings. Embattled and with machiolations, surmounted by a weathervane. Clock faces on each side and slit windows to the tower at two levels on two sides. Stepped offset over the plinth which has a round-arched doorway to W and to E a composite bronze plaque, the central 4-panelled section commemorating the dead of First World War, and the later plaques either side added to commemorate the dead of the Second World War.
Reason for designation
Listed as a notable town landmark and for its historic interest as public memorial to the fallen of both World Wars.
Nearby in the register
- Penrhiwceiber Institute and Community HallNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Former Penrhiwceiber Welfare InstituteRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Carmel Independent ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Brynbychan Round CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.