The War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 March 2002. Memorial.
The War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- kindled-baluster-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 March 2002
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- The War Memorial, Tenby
- OS grid reference
- SN 132 004
- Coordinates
- 51.67165, -4.70147
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The War Memorial is a Grade II listed structure made of grey limestone and white marble, designed in a neo-classical style. It stands on three steps, featuring a high plinth with an ogee moulded base, a moulded cornice, and an inscription on the front that reads, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." There are added marble plaques listing names from the 1939-1945 war.
The tall main shaft has grey stone Ionic corner piers topped with bronze capitals, and long marble panels displaying the names of the 1914-1918 dead on all four sides. Above the plaques, each side features a short grey stone band with a small bronze wreath between the capitals. The memorial is topped with a full entablature that includes a deep frieze and a dentil cornice.
The upper section consists of a recessed square framed by grey stone short corner piers, which support white marble carved plaques with a plain cornice above. These carved plaques display the town arms of Tenby, along with scrolls inscribed with "Requiescat in Pace," "Gwell angau na chwilydd," and "Their name liveth for evermore." The very top section has square angle blocks framing a recessed low-gabled plinth that leads to an incurved pedestal crowned with a bronze square capital and a bronze flame.
Local climate
The War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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