82911

 

II  

Designated  

18/06/2004  

18/06/2004  

War Memorial and chain-link surround  

 

Carmarthenshire  

Llandovery  

 

 

276670  

234331  

 

Situated on island site opposite Nos 3 to 5 Broad Street  

Commemorative  

 

Llandovery town war memorial, of 1924, made by Boultons of Cheltenham, the statue a casting of one of the 4 figures on the LNER memorial outside Euston Station, London (sculptor unknown, memorial designed by R.Wynne Owen). It cost £900 and the five parts of the granite pedestal were said to represent the 5 years of the Great War. A chain-link fence is shown on granite posts around the memorial itself after c1930, and a photograph in Llandovery Official Guide of 1952 shows the coping of the present enclosure but not the posts and chains.  

War memorial, 1924, bronze soldier in greatcoat and cap holding a reversed rifle, on a tapering grey granite pedestal inscribed with names of the fallen. Front has 1914-19 inscription in incised panel, side has 1939-45 inscription in similar panel. Granite plinth and 3 granite steps. The memorial and lawns to E and W are surrounded by a low chain-link fence with 2 chains to each section on short cast-iron posts with ball finials, on rendered plinth.  

 

Included as a significant town war memorial with fine bronze statue.