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
80873
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
08/04/2003  
Date of Amendment
08/04/2003  
Name of Property
War Memorial  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff  
Community
Ynysybwl and Coed-y-Cwm  
Town
 
Locality
Ynysybwl  
Easting
306018  
Northing
194206  
Street Side
 
Location
In the centre of the later C19 part of Ynysybwl, at a Y-junction.  

Description


Broad Class
 
Period
 

History
Commemorating the dead of First World War 1914-18 and Second World War 1939-45, in the manner of the Lutyens cenotaph in Whitehall. The present inscription plaques are replacements in steel of the original carved inscriptions. The memorial was damaged by a colliding vehicle in mid C20 and repaired.  

Exterior
Cenotaph War Memorial in Portland stone with metal inscription plaques, standing in a small square enclosure created by chains linking low stone obelisks on a stone footing. A tiered base with plaque and carved relief inscription commemorating the dead of ''The World War'' (second). Main shaft has a bronze plaque in shallow relief depicting soldiers standing by graves above the main inscription plaque and carved relief inscription over commemorating the dead of ''The Great War''. On narrower side panels are relief-carved wreathed swords in mourning position. Heavily moulded entablature above topped by a wreath.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included as a war memorial in the manner of the Lutyens Whitehall cenotaph, a public monument to local people who gave their lives in the World Wars of the Twentieth Century.  

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