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War Memorial to S of Skenfrith Castle

A Grade II Listed Building in Llangattock-Vibon-Avel, Monmouthshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8778 / 51°52'40"N

Longitude: -2.7899 / 2°47'23"W

OS Eastings: 345721

OS Northings: 220214

OS Grid: SO457202

Mapcode National: GBR FH.RSP7

Mapcode Global: VH794.L2G8

Plus Code: 9C3VV6H6+42

Entry Name: War Memorial to S of Skenfrith Castle

Listing Date: 19 March 2001

Last Amended: 19 March 2001

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 25051

Building Class: Commemorative

ID on this website: 300025051

Location: Mounted on the roadside approximately halfway between the S end of the village street and Skenfrith Bridge.

County: Monmouthshire

Town: Monmouth

Community: Llangattock-Vibon-Avel (Llangatwg Feibion Afel)

Community: Skenfrith

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

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Exterior

A War Memorial cross mounted on a walled podium which doubles as a horse trough. Commemorates the Great War 1914-19. Constructed of limestone and sandstone. The podium is rectangular in plan, almost 2m high, presenting a symmetrical tripartite front to the road: a central wall incorporating the horse trough, flanked by plain entrance openings to quadrantal flights of winding steps leading to a platform in front of the cross, which is mounted on the centre of the rear wall. The central wall, which has broad pilasters, and the terminal piers to right and left of the entrances, have high chamfered plinths and flat copings. The horse trough, incorporated in the plinth of the central wall, is a semi-circular arched recess with a hollow-chamfered surround and a large panelled keystone, protecting a shallow convex-fronted bowl at ground level. The cross on the back wall has a tapered square plinth on a deep moulded base, each side of the plinth displaying a moulded and shouldered lettered panel, and a tall octagonal shaft finished as a wheel cross. Lettering on the panel on the S front states that the memorial was erected by the parishioners, and names 9 men of Skenfrith who made the supreme sacrifice (5 of them officers, of whom 3 had served in the RAF including a Captain R.Thomas, Croix de Guerre). Very unusually, the panels on the E and W sides name "those who served and returned" (20 on the W side, 22 on the E). The panel on the rear commemorates World War II, listing only 3 names.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a good memorial, with group value with Skenfrith Castle and Skenfrith Mill.

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  • II Telephone Call-box
    Set into grass verge close to road junction into village; open fields to rear.
  • II Mill House
    On the W side of the junction of the road with the SE end of the village street, facing the plot occupied by Skenfrith Mill.
  • II Skenfrith Mill
    Sited close to the SE corner of Skenfrith Castle, on the SW side of a leet which passes beside the E wall of the castle.
  • II* Skenfrith Castle
    Situated at the SE corner of Skenfrith village, in the valley of the River Monnow, close to the W bank of the river and approximately 100m NW of Skenfrith Bridge.
  • II Skenfrith Bridge
    Crossing the River Monnow approximately 100m E of Skenfrith Castle.
  • II Sarn
    On the W side of the road in the centre of Skenfrith village, facing Skenfrith Castle approximately 50m to the SE.
  • II The Old Shop
    In the centre of Skenfrith village, approximately 50m SE of the Church of St Bridget, with Skenfrith Castle to the front and the church to the rear.
  • I Church of St Bridget
    Very attractively situated towards the N end of the village and approximately 100m NW of Skenfrith Castle, with which it forms part of a very fine group.

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