Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
25078
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/04/2001
Date of Amendment
30/04/2001
Name of Property
Gwespyr War Memorial
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Llanasa
Town
Locality
Gwespyr
Easting
311056
Northing
382955
Street Side
Location
At the S end of the village and set back from the main road through the village opposite Kelston Court
Description
Broad Class
Commemorative
Period
History
Erected in 1897 by Sir Pyers William Mostyn of Talacre Abbey to mark the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria. It was remodelled as a war memorial in 1919 to the design of R Drure of Talacre.
Exterior
War memorial comprising a stone tablet set into a battered revetment wall of snecked, rock-faced stone. The tablet, engraved with a roll call in black letters, has panelled pilasters with cornice and segmental pediment. At the base of the pilasters are the makers name and a inscription commemorating the laying of the stone by Constance Lady Bates in 1919. The tablet is flanked by concave mouldings to the raked flanking walls, whose outer sides terminate in simple piers with ball finials (attached to which are later blockwork walls enclosing a small forecourt in front of the memorial). Below the memorial tablet is a foundation tablet laid in 1897.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for social-historical interest and as a well-detailed memorial in a prominent location.
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