The War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 2003. War memorial.

The War Memorial

WRENN ID
broken-hall-fog
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Gower MP: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 May 2003
Type
War memorial
Address
The War Memorial, Pontardulais
OS grid reference
SN 589 038
Coordinates
51.71551, -4.04339
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The War Memorial is a Grade II listed structure made of square-section pink marble featuring white marble panels. It has a plinth, steps, and a statue at the top. The base consists of four steps made of rock-faced pink marble, with a similar plinth and a shouldered step in smooth marble. The main section has smooth pink marble corner pilasters with wider bases and caps, which are adorned with raised squared vertical banding. The sides feature white marble panels, with the south and east sides displaying the names of those who fell in war in aluminium lettering.

Above this, a shorter two-tier upper section has similar pink marble corner pilasters and white marble panels. The inscriptions on the south side read "The Only Hope of Peace 1914 - 1918," while the east side states "Unig Gobaith Hedd 1939 - 1945." Additionally, the south side features the phrase "At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them" in Welsh, and the east side has the same phrase in English. The top section is supported by a corbelled cornice and features a statue of a female figure at the apex, holding an upright cross and an olive branch.

Local climate

The War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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