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Latitude: 51.7503 / 51°45'0"N
Longitude: -3.377 / 3°22'37"W
OS Eastings: 305041
OS Northings: 206627
OS Grid: SO050066
Mapcode National: GBR HN.0Z61
Mapcode Global: VH6CY.F83L
Plus Code: 9C3RQJ2F+46
Entry Name: Merthyr Tydfil War Memorial
Listing Date: 13 January 1988
Last Amended: 13 January 1988
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11455
Building Class: Commemorative
Also known as: Merthyr Tydfil War Memorial, High Street, Pontmorlais
ID on this website: 300011455
Location: Set on terraced hillside above main road junction at Pontmorlais Circus.
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Community: Park (Parc)
Community: Park
Locality: Pontmorlans
Built-Up Area: Merthyr Tydfil
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: War memorial Sculpture
ca1930. Bronze figures by L S Merrifield, 1931; cast by A B Burton, founder of Thames Ditton.
Tall Portland stone niche with moulded arched capping, tapering sides and stepped plinth with flanking pedestals. Central bronze, mythological figure of one of the Three Fates bearing (or measuring) the Web of Life. War trophy to swagged pedestal. To sides are standing figures of a miner and a female carrying a child.
Arrangement of curved flight of steps leads down to ca1930 bronze guardrail with classical torch motif. Ironwork urns on front wall.
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