Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St Athan War Memorial
St. Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 3 September 2004
- Locality
- St Athan
- Town
- Barry
- Community
- St. Athan
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.39864, -3.41345
- Cadw reference
- 83126
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
At the junction of the B4285 and Gileston Road.
History
c1920 memorial to WWI.
Exterior
Portland stone ashlar. Memorial in the shape of a square pillar on a moulded base standing on three stone steps and a stone plat. The pillar has entasis and rises to a dentil cornice and moulded projecting capping which carries a ball on a swept peak. The south face to the road has an arched tabernacle with an inscription to the fallen of both World Wars and the wording 'THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED BY THE PARISHES OF ST. ATHAN, FLEMINGSTONE, GILESTON AND EGLWYSBREWIS'. Below the taberbnacle there is an inscription in Welsh. The steps are surrounded by a square of late C20 steel railings.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as a well designed war memorial in a prominent location.
Nearby in the register
- Pigsty at Gileston ManorAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Church of St AthanReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Kitchen Garden Wall of Gileston ManorDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stable Block of Gileston ManorDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.