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
25051
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/03/2001
Date of Amendment
19/03/2001
Name of Property
War Memorial to S of Skenfrith Castle
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Skenfrith
Town
Monmouth
Locality
Skenfrith
Easting
345721
Northing
220214
Street Side
N
Location
Mounted on the roadside approximately halfway between the S end of the village street and Skenfrith Bridge.
Description
Broad Class
Commemorative
Period
History
Exterior
A War Memorial cross mounted on a walled podium which doubles as a horse trough. Commemorates the Great War 1914-19. Constructed of limestone and sandstone. The podium is rectangular in plan, almost 2m high, presenting a symmetrical tripartite front to the road: a central wall incorporating the horse trough, flanked by plain entrance openings to quadrantal flights of winding steps leading to a platform in front of the cross, which is mounted on the centre of the rear wall. The central wall, which has broad pilasters, and the terminal piers to right and left of the entrances, have high chamfered plinths and flat copings. The horse trough, incorporated in the plinth of the central wall, is a semi-circular arched recess with a hollow-chamfered surround and a large panelled keystone, protecting a shallow convex-fronted bowl at ground level. The cross on the back wall has a tapered square plinth on a deep moulded base, each side of the plinth displaying a moulded and shouldered lettered panel, and a tall octagonal shaft finished as a wheel cross. Lettering on the panel on the S front states that the memorial was erected by the parishioners, and names 9 men of Skenfrith who made the supreme sacrifice (5 of them officers, of whom 3 had served in the RAF including a Captain R.Thomas, Croix de Guerre). Very unusually, the panels on the E and W sides name "those who served and returned" (20 on the W side, 22 on the E). The panel on the rear commemorates World War II, listing only 3 names.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a good memorial, with group value with Skenfrith Castle and Skenfrith Mill.
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