Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
War Memorial in front of Pontrhydyrun Baptist Church
Croesyceiliog, Torfaen, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 30 July 2003
- Locality
- Croesyceiliog
- Town
- Cwmbran
- Community
- Croesyceiliog
- Unitary authority
- Torfaen
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.66597, -3.00808
- Cadw reference
- 81750
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
On the SE side of Pontrhydyrun Baptist Church, near the main entrance.
History
War memorial unveiled on 13/7/1922, at a cost of £100 in memory of the members of the congregation killed in the Great War.
Exterior
War memorial, ashlar, classical tall pedestal memorial. Big square shaft with inscriptions, splayed out towards base with chamfered angles, the chamfers run out at base. Top frieze with chamfered corners under square egg-and-dart-moulded corniced cap carrying carved short Celtic cross. Shaft stands on steeply chamfered base on plinth with coved top moulding.
Reason for designation
Included as a distinctive pedestal war memorial of group value with the Baptist Church.
Nearby in the register
- Pontrhydyrun Baptist ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Enclosure railings, walls, gatepiers and Memorials at the Conway Burial YardNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Pontrhydyrun HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at Race FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.