Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
21959
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
28/06/1999  
Date of Amendment
28/06/1999  
Name of Property
Senghenydd War Memorial  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Caerphilly  
Community
Aber Valley  
Town
 
Locality
Senghenydd  
Easting
311665  
Northing
190717  
Street Side
E  
Location
Prominently sited at the junction of Commercial Street and High Street.  

Description


Broad Class
 
Period
 

History
Erected by the Senghenydd War Memorial Committee in 1921.  

Exterior
Clock tower of pink granite, on a square plinth and enclosed within late C20 brick kerb and railings. A moulded base has polished granite panels on 3 sides recording the dead of 1914-18 in gold-painted, engraved letters. The tall pedestal has a tablet inset on W side facing the main street recording erection of the monument. On the N and S sides are English and Welsh inscriptions, with an added plaque commemorating 1939-45 war dead on the S side. Below the clock the pedestal has stylised leaf capitals in low relief. The round clock faces project out above a moulded cornice and are set in panels with low-relief interlace at the corners. A cast iron finial consists of scrolled arches in the cardinal directions, from which lamps are hung (originally for gas).  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included as a prominent structure in the centre of Senghenydd and for its social-historical interest.  

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