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
25616
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/08/2001
Date of Amendment
06/08/2001
Name of Property
W.R. H. Powell memorial in churchyard and iron railings
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanboidy
Town
Whitland
Locality
Llanboidy
Easting
221663
Northing
223240
Street Side
Location
Situated in the churchyard in Llanboidy village, to the E of the parish church.
Description
Broad Class
Commemorative
Period
History
Memorial to W.R.H. Powell of Maesgwynne, 1891, by William Goscombe John. White marble statue in 'New Sculpture' vein. This, according to Goscombe John, was his first commission of any importance. The figure he said represents 'Truth', though at the time it was said to represent 'Grief'. John used a nude variant on the statue for the Arthur Sullivan memorial of 1903 on Victoria Embankment, London, and another version on the 1923 memorial to his own wife. The sculpture is becoming eroded from weathering and would benefit from protection.
W. R. H. Powell (1819-89) was a prominent local figure, MP for East Carmarthenshire 1880-5 and 1886-9, High Sheriff 1849, JP, notable for his hunting and horse-racing, responsible for the virtual rebuilding of Llanboidy village. He laid out a racecourse SW of the village.
Exterior
Memorial sculpture of a near life-size lightly draped white marble female figure leaning in an attitude of grief against a tall marble vertical slab with raised cross in shallow relief. The base on which the figure stands is also marble, flat under the figure and then a shallow slope forward with inset lead letters: Walter Rice Howell Powell MP born April 4th 1819 and died June 25th 1889. To his Beloved Memory'.. The whole stands in a square railed enclosure of spearhead rails with urn-capped stanchions on low stone coping.
Interior
Reason for designation
Graded II* as an important early work by the leading Welsh sculptor of the early C20.
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