Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
14597
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/07/1994
Date of Amendment
25/07/1994
Name of Property
Memorial to S African War
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Uplands
Town
Locality
Easting
263931
Northing
192122
Street Side
Location
On Esplanade opposite SW corner of St Helen’s cricket and rugby ground
Description
Broad Class
Commemorative
Period
History
Formerly stood in Victoria Park, and moved to Esplanade 1930s to make room for Swansea Guildhall. Designed by Mr Littlejohn, executed by Brown’s monumental masons of Heathfield Street, Swansea.
Memorial to fallen in South African War 1900-1902. Unveiled 15 April 1904; paid for by public subscription of 1 shilling.
Exterior
Pink granite pedestal (on pale and dark grey granite step) with dark grey granite columns to angles, upper part of pedestal octagonal with bronze wreaths, and heraldic shield. White stone statue of soldier with bronze rifle protecting fallen comrade. Soldier said to have been posed for by Sgt O S Bird, PE teacher of Swansea Grammar School.
Inscriptions on pedestal record monument’s origins and names of those who fell ‘For that fair motherland which gave them birth nobly to dare, nobly to die’.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for historic interest.
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