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Reference Number
82947
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/07/2004
Date of Amendment
15/07/2004
Name of Property
Llandissilio War Memorial
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Llandissilio West
Town
Clynderwen
Locality
Llandissilio
Easting
212135
Northing
221577
Street Side
E
Location
In a prominent position on the E side of the main road through Llandissilio.
Description
Broad Class
Commemorative
Period
History
War memorial, erected c. 1920, to men of the parish killed in the Great War. Later additions for the Second World War.
Exterior
War Memorial, grey granite Celtic cross with interlace decoration, the granite polished to a dark grey for five spheres in the cross head and raised borders. Large curved-sided tapering pedestal, with memorial inscriptions, polished apart from the rebated borders, on square plinth with polished sloping sides. Inscriptions on front read 'COGONIANT YN Y CORUCHAF, ODUW', 'TO THE HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THE PARISH WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WARS', '1914-1918', '1939-1945' and 'DROS DUW, DROS FRENIN, DROS WLAD'. Five names are inscribed on the right side and five names on the left side.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a well-detailed Celtic Revival cross and for historical interest as a Great War memorial.
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