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
24367
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/11/2000
Date of Amendment
14/11/2000
Name of Property
Llanharan War Memorial
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community
Llanharan
Town
Locality
Llanharan
Easting
300224
Northing
183170
Street Side
N
Location
Prominently sited NW of the village centre
Description
Broad Class
Commemorative
Period
History
Erected in the 1920s but moved to its present location in 1960.
Exterior
A tall pedestal with a statue of an infantryman in battlefield dress, carved from Portland stone. The monument is set on a shallow plinth with concrete paving, part of the enclosure created in 1960. Above a shallow projecting base is a tapering pedestal, on the front of which the names of the 1914-18 war dead are engraved in black letters within a sunk panel. The sides have dedication inscriptions in English and Welsh. On the rear face the dead of the 1939-45 and Korean wars are added, above an inscription on the base recording the movement of the monument to its new location in 1960.
The monument stands in a railed enclosure of concrete paving with steel railings. Flag poles are placed flanking the memorial.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for social-historical interest and as a fine piece of monumental sculpture in a prominent location.
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