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
82207
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
28/11/2003  
Date of Amendment
28/11/2003  
Name of Property
The War Memorial and stone seat  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire  
Community
Carmarthen  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
241647  
Northing
220316  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated before former Carmarthen Infirmary.  

Description


Broad Class
Commemorative  
Period
 

History
War memorial of 1923-4 to the fallen of the 1914-18 war, with statue by Sir William Goscombe John on pedestal and with stone curving bench surround designed by E.V. Collier.  

Exterior
Bronze statue of soldier in First World War battledress standing at ease with hand resting on rifle with bayonet fixed. This, on squared silver granite inscribed pedestal with moulded plinth and chamfered angles, which in turn rests on rock-faced granite steps. Inscription on front reads ''''To the immortal memory of the men of Carmarthenshire who fell in the Great War 1914-1918'''' and below, ''''Mewn angof ni chant fod.'''' To rear inscription to the 1610 nurses officers and men of all ranks who fell. On side inscription to fallen of 1939-45 war. Around the rear is a semicircular stone bench with sandstone ashlar seat on rock-faced grey limestone plinth and with tooled grey limestone back. Seat ends at grey stone obelisks, then low stone wall with rails out to outer obelisk, then further section out to Infirmary gatepiers.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included as a war memorial by the leading Welsh sculptor of the earlier C20.  

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