Latitude: 51.9937 / 51°59'37"N
Longitude: -3.7977 / 3°47'51"W
OS Eastings: 276670
OS Northings: 234331
OS Grid: SN766343
Mapcode National: GBR Y4.JGNQ
Mapcode Global: VH5F3.445Z
Plus Code: 9C3RX6V2+FW
Entry Name: War Memorial and chain-link surround
Listing Date: 18 June 2004
Last Amended: 18 June 2004
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 82911
Building Class: Commemorative
Also known as: Llandovery war memorial
ID on this website: 300082911
Location: Situated on island site opposite Nos 3 to 5 Broad Street
County: Carmarthenshire
Community: Llandovery (Llanymddyfri)
Community: Llandovery
Built-Up Area: Llandovery
Traditional County: Carmarthenshire
Tagged with: War memorial
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.
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