The War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 March 2003. War memorial.
The War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- crooked-bronze-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 March 2003
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- The War Memorial, Pontardawe, Swansea
- OS grid reference
- SN 722 039
- Coordinates
- 51.71987, -3.85044
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The War Memorial is a Grade II listed structure made of silver granite. It features an obelisk that tapers from a square base to an octagonal tip, with a relief sword carved on the front. This obelisk is set on a plinth with a curved profile cap, which is supported by detached column shafts at each corner and a raised base. The entire structure is elevated on a large square pedestal that has sunk square panels on each side and a plinth with coved moulding. The base is circular and made of Portland stone. The front of the memorial displays bronze plaques with raised letters surrounded by laurel-leaf designs, including a large plaque listing names on the pedestal and a smaller commemorative plaque on the plinth above. The right side features similar plaques honoring those who died in the 1939-1945 war.
Local climate
The War Memorial 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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