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
26819
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/08/2002
Date of Amendment
02/08/2002
Name of Property
Brynamman War Memorial
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen
Town
Ammanford
Locality
Lower Brynamman
Easting
271273
Northing
213801
Street Side
SE
Location
Situated in Lower Brynamman on the SE side of Amman Road just S of the road bridge over the Afon Aman.
Description
Broad Class
Commemorative
Period
History
War memorial, c1922 to the men of Brynamman and Lower Brynamman killed in the Great War. The memorial stands on a raised platform reached by flight of broad steps, and is enclosed by whitewashed rendered walls and railings with tall whitewashed piers.
Exterior
War Memorial, polished pale grey granite cenotaph with darker grey granite plaques. Two steps, two-step plinth with ogee top moulding, tall pedestal with inset large front plaque and moulded cornice with frieze above. Top sarcophagus with plinth, raised plaque to front, cornice and pyramid capstone. Sarcophagus has '1914-1918 Rhag anghofio o honon' inscribed. Main plaque has 'Cofeb serch ardalwyr Brynamman iw bechgyn a gollod eu bywyd yn y Rhyfel Mawr' above two columns of names.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a well-designed First World War memorial in a prominent location.
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