War Memorial, including revetments and steps is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 2000. War Memorial.

War Memorial, including revetments and steps

WRENN ID
blind-stronghold-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Constituency
Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 May 2000
Type
War Memorial
Address
War Memorial, including revetments and steps, Briton Ferry
OS grid reference
SS 743 944
Coordinates
51.63481, -3.81761
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The War Memorial features a bronze statue mounted on a granite pedestal, surrounded by a precinct and steps. The pedestal has a moulded cap and base, along with a stepped plinth. Atop the pedestal is a statue of an infantryman, sculpted by Gaffin of Regent Street, London, depicted with a bowed head and a rifle pointing to the ground. The pedestal includes a roll of honour engraved in black letters. The front of the base displays a bronze trophy featuring a crossed rifle and sword sheath with a wreath in the center, while the back showcases another bronze trophy consisting of an anchor, rope, telescope, and chart, also with a wreath. Additional bronze plaques on the remaining sides list the war dead from 1939-45.

The pavement around the statue has been renewed and is set into a bank with coursed rock-faced revetment walls topped with ashlar coping. The side walls are ramped and extend outward to flank the original approach steps, although the current approach steps and their balustrades were added after 1945. These later additions are made of reconstituted stone and consist of steps with flanking balustrades that end with square piers. The balustrades return outward at the front, with rusticated pilasters flanking panels engraved with the dates of the two wars. Beyond these features are rock-faced walls that end in a square pier on the right side and connect to a segmental-arched doorway with double boarded doors leading to Sturn Lodge at 150a Neath Road on the left side.

Local climate

War Memorial, including revetments and steps sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 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 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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