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Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
24497
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/01/2001
Date of Amendment
12/01/2001
Name of Property
The War Memorial, Marros
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Eglwyscummin
Town
Whitland
Locality
Marros
Easting
220757
Northing
208964
Street Side
Location
Situated just E of the Church of Saint Lawrence, S of minor road from Pendine to Amroth, approximately 3km W of Pendine.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
War Memorial of 1930 in the form of a neolithic dolmen, all of limestone from Marros Mountain.
Exterior
War Memorial, rock-faced limestone, of two big uprights and a lintel on a stone-paved platform approached by 4 curving stone steps from the N. The steps splay out each side and the sides a of the platform are revetted with rough-hewn stone blocks placed one next to the other, those flanking the steps ascending in height, the platform with taller stones at the 4 corners. On the lintel and both uprights are bronze plaques with 'The Great War 1914-1918' and the names of those who served and those who died.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an unusual war memorial, of group value with the parish church.
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