War Memorial in Morriston Park is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 September 1993. Memorial.
War Memorial in Morriston Park
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-newel-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 September 1993
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- SS 664 983
- Coordinates
- 51.66803, -3.93251
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The War Memorial in Morriston Park features a bronze statue of a female figure, likely representing 'Peace'. She is depicted with a winged headdress and is holding an orb high above her head. The statue stands on a classicising granite plinth. Inscriptions on the front and rear are in both Welsh and English, while the sides list the names of those who were lost in the World Wars.
Local climate
War Memorial in Morriston Park sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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