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
85397
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/09/2005
Date of Amendment
26/09/2005
Name of Property
Porthmadog war memorial, including steps, trilithon and monoliths forming its approach
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Porthmadog
Town
Porthmadog
Locality
Ynys Galch
Easting
256662
Northing
339263
Street Side
E
Location
Prominently sited on a natural eminence to the N of the town centre and to the N of the railway station.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
A 1914-18 and 1939-45 war memorial designed by Griff Morris, architect of Porthmadog.
Exterior
The main memorial is a cross surmounting a small eminence, but its approach was also designed to achieve a sense of procession from street level. The Celtic style cross stands on a stepped plinth. Its square base has inset bronze inscription panels with roll call of the 1914-18 war dead in raised letters. The wheel-headed cross is on a tapering shaft. The memorial is within a square enclosure defined by dwarf walls of coursed stone, with piers set across the angles bearing bronze plaques commemorating the 1939-45 war dead.
The memorial is reached by a winding path from street level. An arc of stone steps, with stepped parapet, leads up from the street to a rock-faced trilithon engraved 'Bryn Coffa'. Beyond is a path lined on each side by monoliths, each bearing the inscription of the years of the 1914-18 and 1939-45 wars.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as an unusual composite memorial designed as a processional sequence culminating in the hill-top cross.
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