Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
25/07/1994
Date of Amendment
25/07/1994
Name of Property
Cenotaph
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Location
Opposite Victoria Terrace.
Broad Class
Commemorative
History
War memorial in Cornish granite. Unveiled 15 September 1923; by L F Roslyn, following style of Lutyens’ Whitehall Cenotaph but with addition of bronze reliefs.
Exterior
Tomb chest set on tall pylon based on stepped plinth. Tomb chest has inscriptions on broad sides, and bronze wreaths on narrow sides. Below, narrow sides have bronze reliefs of soldier and sailor (signed L F Roslyn 1920); broad sides have bronze sword flanked by bronze plates recording names of fallen in Great War. Added tablets on narrow sides of base record names of fallen in Second World War, and Falklands, 1982; broad sides have Welsh and English inscriptions in bronze lettering.
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