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
26422
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/03/2002
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
The War Memorial
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213298
Northing
200442
Street Side
W
Location
On the N side of the junction of South Parade, Upper Park Road and Trafalgar Road.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
War memorial of 1921 designed by J Howard Morgan of Carmarthen following suggestions by the Mayor of Tenby, William Davies, building contractor, who also superintended the building, carried out by George Beynon, monumental mason, and Sydney Davies of Culver Park. The memorial stands some 6 metres high and cost £1,180.
Exterior
War Memorial, grey limestone and white marble, square-plan pedestal memorial in neo-classical style. On 3 steps, high plinth has ogee moulded base, moulded cornice and front inscription 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends'. Added marble plaques with names from 1939-1945 war. Tall main shaft has grey stone Ionic corner piers with bronze capitals and long marble panels between with names of the 1914-1918 dead on all 4 sides. Between capitals above plaques each side is grey stone short band with small bronze wreath. Full entablature above with deep frieze and dentil cornice. Top section is a recessed square with grey stone short corner piers framing white marble carved plaques with plain cornice over. Carved plaques have Tenby town arms, scrolls inscribed 'Requiescat in Pace', 'Gwell angau na chwilydd' and 'Their name liveth for evermore'. Topmost section has square angle blocks framing recessed low-gabled plinth to an incurved pedestal with bronze square capital and bronze flame.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a well-designed town war-memorial
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