Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
16/03/1976
Date of Amendment
06/06/2001
Name of Property
War Memorial, including Lamp Standards and Bollards
Location
On prominent position on Promenade.
Broad Class
Commemorative
History
1920s; designed by by S Colwyn Foulkes.
Exterior
War Memorial in form of rusticated granite obelisk with golden ball finial with flame cresting. Near the base of the shaft there are tablets bearing the names of local men killed in 1914-13 and 1939-45 World Wars; stepped base. The memorial is flanked to North-west and South-east by strips of ground set out with low slender bollards of granite and with 4 contemporary lamp standards with wide fluted circular shafts with moulded bases, each shaft surmounted by multi ball lamp finials of glass.
Reason for designation
Striking war memorial by important local architect on key site at intersection of Gloddaeth Street and Promenade.
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