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Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
26506
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/05/2002
Date of Amendment
03/05/2002
Name of Property
War Memorial
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Dinas Powys
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Dinas Powys
Easting
315318
Northing
171293
Street Side
Location
In the middle of the triangular green at the centre of the village on paving enclosed by chain fencing hung from stone piers.
Description
Broad Class
Commemorative
Period
History
Commemorating the dead of the First and (later) Second World Wars. First dedicated in 1935 following controversy over the form the memorial should take, in particular whether a hospital should be built. Original design was for a cross. Earlier photograph confirms the 'crazy paving' surface to the plinth to be a later insertion; the original design provided the traditional step/ledge for wreaths. Other nearby features on the Green are a stone trough incorporating a stone engraved with a lion's head and a fountain erected to commemorate reign of Edward VII.
Exterior
War Memorial. Plain tapered pier of coursed rock-faced stone on a wide plinth with an upper surface of random-set stone. Cast metal plaques record the names of the dead, surmounted by a metal wreath on the main S elevation.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a village war memorial in prominent village centre position. Group value with the Old Court.
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