85397

 

II  

Designated  

26/09/2005  

26/09/2005  

Porthmadog war memorial, including steps, trilithon and monoliths forming its approach  

 

Gwynedd  

Porthmadog  

Porthmadog  

Ynys Galch  

256662  

339263  

E  

Prominently sited on a natural eminence to the N of the town centre and to the N of the railway station.  

 

 

A 1914-18 and 1939-45 war memorial designed by Griff Morris, architect of Porthmadog.  

The main memorial is a cross surmounting a small eminence, but its approach was also designed to achieve a sense of procession from street level. The Celtic style cross stands on a stepped plinth. Its square base has inset bronze inscription panels with roll call of the 1914-18 war dead in raised letters. The wheel-headed cross is on a tapering shaft. The memorial is within a square enclosure defined by dwarf walls of coursed stone, with piers set across the angles bearing bronze plaques commemorating the 1939-45 war dead. The memorial is reached by a winding path from street level. An arc of stone steps, with stepped parapet, leads up from the street to a rock-faced trilithon engraved 'Bryn Coffa'. Beyond is a path lined on each side by monoliths, each bearing the inscription of the years of the 1914-18 and 1939-45 wars.  

 

Listed as an unusual composite memorial designed as a processional sequence culminating in the hill-top cross.