Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hay & Cusop War Memorial
Hay, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Hay, Powys, designated on 25 June 2020.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 25 June 2020
- Welsh name
- Cofeb Ryfel y Gelli a Cusop
- Community
- Hay
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.07415, -3.12612
- Cadw reference
- 87792
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)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 197 Hay (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At junction of Castle Lane and Castle Street, set into the wall of the castle grounds.
History
The memorial was unveiled in the centre of the Market Square in 1920. After 1945 it was moved to an enclosure set into the boundary wall of the castle grounds, which allowed for additional plaques to be set up commemorating the dead of World War II.
Exterior
The freestone memorial is in the style of a medieval churchyard cross, a tapering octagonal shaft surmounted by a floriated cross, on a tall square base. Attached to the base are bronze plaques with a roll call of the dead of 1914-18. The memorial stands on a stepped freestone plinth, the lower step of which is of snecked stonework and was probably added when the memorial was moved to its present location. The memorial stands within a paved enclosure, which has rubble-stone retaining walls against the higher ground of the castle grounds. Facing the street are end piers with ball finials. There are brass plaques with a roll call of the dead of 1939-46 against the rear wall.
Reason for designation
Listed for its social-historical interest and for group value with the castle, the adjoining section of boundary wall to Hay Castle, and other listed items in Castle Street and Market Street.
Nearby in the register
- Section of the Boundry Wall to Hay CastleDefenceunder 1 mi
- Hay CastleDefenceunder 1 mi
- River Wye BooksellersCommercialunder 1 mi
- Ye Olde Curiosity ShopCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.