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
80905
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/02/2003
Date of Amendment
18/02/2003
Name of Property
War Memorial
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community
Mountain Ash
Town
Mountain Ash
Locality
Cwmpennar
Easting
304423
Northing
199809
Street Side
Location
On the E hillside of Afon Cynon on a triangular levelled terrace of grass and surrounding woodland, by a cross-roads at former entrance to Dyffryn and close to the General Hospital.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Erected 1922 by Nixon''s Workmen's Institute. Messrs Nixon's Navigation Coal Company owned several collieries in the area including Nixon''s Navigation, Nixon''s North Pit, Deep Duffryn and Cwm Cynon. The Nixon's Workmen's Institute, which provided a wide range of facilities for the workmen and their families including a swimming pool and theatre, was sited in the town centre; demolished in 1990s. Land given by Lord Aberdare whose mansion Dyffryn was nearby, now demolished. Inscription added to commemorate the dead of the Second World War 1939-45. Figure sculpture by J Havard Thomas, inscribed and dated 1921. He was responsible for the group of white marble statues of great figures of Welsh History in the upper level reception hall of Cardiff City Hall.
Exterior
War Memorial. Unusually sited in a wooded glade and overlooking the Cynon valley and the town of Mountain Ash. It comprises a copper alloy figure sculpture on a rectangular pier of granite with battered plinth and set on 3 shallow steps. Set into each pier face is a recessed rectangular metal bas-relief of a figure, representing each of the forces - Army Navy, Airforce - and a nurse, all in mourning position with arms reversed; applied metal lettering inscription panels below. Crowning the pier is a life-size statue of a female martial figure in classical costume, holding a weapon, with the representation of a defeated enemy under her feet.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-designed and striking war memorial with identified sculptor in an unusual and prominent position.
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