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Latitude: 53.0028 / 53°0'9"N
Longitude: -2.913 / 2°54'46"W
OS Eastings: 338829
OS Northings: 345438
OS Grid: SJ388454
Mapcode National: GBR 79.GT1S
Mapcode Global: WH896.7S3D
Plus Code: 9C5V233P+4R
Entry Name: War Memorial
Listing Date: 24 February 1997
Last Amended: 24 February 1997
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 18257
Building Class: Commemorative
ID on this website: 300018257
Location: Situated near the end of High Street adjaoining the W end of the churchyard wall.
County: Wrexham
Community: Bangor Is-y-coed (Bangor Is-coed)
Community: Bangor is-y-Coed
Locality: Bangor Is-y-coed
Built-Up Area: Bangor-on-Dee
Traditional County: Flintshire
Tagged with: War memorial Sculpture
By H Tyson Smith probably to his own design as a First World War memorial, 1922. The dates 1939 and 1945 were added to the ball finials to commemorate the Second World War.
Red sandstone column surmounted by a draped female figure of Art-Nouveau character holding two wreaths. There are three small brackets near the base of the column, on the back are the words: 'Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam' and on the front the names of the dead. This is set before a curved seating recess formed by a red sandstone wall with a stone seat supported by brackets. The wall terminates on each side with piers with ball finials on which are carved respectively the dates 1914 and 1918 beneath which have been added the dates 1939 and 1945. Above the seat are the following inscriptions: 'In Grateful remembrance of the Men of this parish Who Gave Their Lives in the Great War'; 'All these were honoured in their generations and were the glory of their times. Ecclesiasticus XLIV-VII'. The lettering is of particularly fine quality throughout.
Listed as a good example of a war memorial and for the fine quality of the sculpture and lettering. Group value with Bangor Bridge and the Church of St Dunawd.
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