The War Memorial and stone seat is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 November 2003. Memorial.
The War Memorial and stone seat
- WRENN ID
- scattered-slate-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 November 2003
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- The War Memorial and stone seat, Carmarthen
- OS grid reference
- SN 416 203
- Coordinates
- 51.85891, -4.30094
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The War Memorial and stone seat is a Grade II listed structure commemorating those who served in the First World War. It features a bronze statue of a soldier in First World War battledress, standing at ease with one hand resting on a rifle that has a bayonet fixed. The statue is mounted on a squared silver granite pedestal, which has a moulded plinth and chamfered angles, and this pedestal rests on rock-faced granite steps. The front of the pedestal is inscribed with the words "To the immortal memory of the men of Carmarthenshire who fell in the Great War 1914-1918," along with the Welsh phrase "Mewn angof ni chant fod" below it. There is an inscription at the rear dedicated to the 1610 nurses, officers, and men of all ranks who fell, and a side inscription honors the fallen of the 1939-45 war.
Surrounding the rear of the memorial is a semicircular stone bench, featuring a sandstone ashlar seat on a rock-faced grey limestone plinth, with a tooled grey limestone back. The ends of the seat are marked by grey stone obelisks, leading to a low stone wall with rails that extends to the outer obelisk and further to the Infirmary gatepiers.
Local climate
The War Memorial and stone seat sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow 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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