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
26714
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/05/2002
Date of Amendment
31/05/2002
Name of Property
Whitchurch War Memorial
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Whitchurch
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Whitchurch
Easting
315085
Northing
180388
Street Side
Location
In the garden outside Whitchurch Library.
Description
Broad Class
Commemorative
Period
History
Erection date uncertain, but probably early 1920s.
Exterior
Granite obelisk on a plinth and standing on five square diminishing granite steps. The obelisk carries on the front an inscription 'IN PROUD & HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF WHITCHURCH WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919 SEMPER FIDELIS 1030-1945', and on the sides and rear the names of the fallen. The obelisk is surmounted by the bronze figure of an infantryman standing with reversed arms.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a good memorial from WWI having group value with the adjacent Whitchurch Library.
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