War Memorial at SS Cynidr & Mary Church is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 December 2022. War memorial.
War Memorial at SS Cynidr & Mary Church
- WRENN ID
- hushed-parapet-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 December 2022
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial at SS Cynidr & Mary Church, Llangynidr, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 155 193
- Coordinates
- 51.86673, -3.22767
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The war memorial at Cynidr & Mary Church is a stone Celtic wheel cross that stands on a tapered four-sided shaft and a rusticated tapered plinth. The memorial features flat inscription panels with gold-painted lettering.
On the east side, facing the road, the top of the shaft reads ‘GWELL ANGEU NA CHYWILYDD’, while the base states, ‘IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918’. Below this, on the plinth, are the names and details of individuals who served, including ‘DISPATCH RIDER F. POWELL JONES SEPT. 26TH 1914’, ‘PTE. WILLIAM V. LLOYD NOVR. 5TH 1914’, ‘LANCE CORP. REGINALD W. WILLIAMS JUNE 4TH 1915’, ‘CAPT. P. POWELL JONES APRIL 21ST 1916’, and the phrase ‘THE SOULS OF THE RIGHTEOUS ARE IN HIS HANDS’. It is noted that the memorial was ‘ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS OF LLANGYNIDR’.
The north side lists additional names, including ‘PTE. JOHN DAVIES JANY. 25TH 1917’, ‘LANCE CORP. ALBERT L. JENKINS MAY 4TH 1917’, and others. The south side includes names such as ‘PTE HARRY WILLIAMS NOVR. 23RD 1917’ and ‘PTE ALFRED JAMES LOVETT APRIL 12TH 1919’. The west side (rear) commemorates those who served in World War II with the inscription ‘1939-1945’ and includes names like ‘GUNR. JAMES WILLIAM BAUCH R.A.’ and ‘SGT. DANIEL IVAN PARRY R.A.F.V.R.’.
The memorial is set on a square base, surrounded by a paved area with low kerbing. It features low gateposts in the churchyard wall with wrought iron gates and a single step leading up to it.
Local climate
War Memorial at SS Cynidr & Mary Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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