Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pencarreg War Memorial
Pencarreg, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Ram, Pencarreg, Carmarthenshire, designated on 23 June 2003.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 23 June 2003
- Locality
- Ram
- Community
- Pencarreg
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.10151, -4.06050
- Cadw reference
- 81236
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 195 Lampeter (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 78. Lampeter. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the road to the NW of Ram Inn.
Exterior
A sculpted memorial on a freestone plinth and tall polished red-granite base. The plinth has red-granite inscription panels added post 1945. The tapering base has gold-lettered inscriptions, and above it is a freestone cornice, acting as a base for the Portland stone figure of an infantryman.
Reason for designation
Listed for its social-historical interest and as a fine memorial sculpture.
Nearby in the register
- Ram InnCommercialunder 1 mi
- Lampeter PillboxPillboxunder 1 mi
- Capel SoarReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- 17 Harford SquareDomestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.