Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cross, War Memorial and Walls surrounding the Green at Tre-Elidyr
Goetre Fawr, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanover, Abergavenny, Goetre Fawr, Monmouthshire, designated on 9 December 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 9 December 2005
- Locality
- Llanover
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Goetre Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.76765, -2.99903
- Cadw reference
- 87149
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Together with an informal grouping of cottages and the village school around the War Memorial Green in the centre of Llanover village.
History
Laid out in 1922 as part of the development Tre-Elidyr designed by Alfred Powell. It was built as a memorial to WWI and to the son of Lord Treowen and others of the village who died in the conflict.
Exterior
Red sandstone walls with slate plaques. Stone walls about 1m in height surround a large square green with openings on three sides. The fourth side has the War Memorial with a quadrant wall and pleached lime trees. The cross is on three steps and has a tall field-found shaft with a light iron cross to the top. The memorial tablets are fixed to the quadrant wall, three slate plaques, one with an inscription in Welsh and English and two with the names of the fallen of WWI. Those lost in WWII are named on a separate bronze tablet.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as being a fine memorial which is part of a planned War Memorial housing development around a green, which was designed by Alfred Powell and remains almost unaltered in detail.
Nearby in the register
- Tre-ElidyrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tre-ElidyrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tre-ElidyrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tre-ElidyrDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.