War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 February 2000. War memorial.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- waiting-cornice-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 February 2000
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- War Memorial, Sandfields East
- OS grid reference
- SS 750 900
- Coordinates
- 51.59542, -3.80596
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The War Memorial is a tapering pier topped with a Celtic cross, made of rendered concrete. The pier features ropework moulding at its angles and bands of interlace work at both the base, which slightly flares out, and the top. The Celtic cross is also adorned with interlace work on each face, along with a band on the small plinth beneath it. The eastern face of the pier lists the names of those who fell in the Great War (1914 - 18), while the western face bears the inscription, "They shall not grow old as we that are left ..."
The memorial stands on a three-tier platform, with the upper tier made of rendered concrete and the lower two tiers constructed of coursed grey rock-faced stone topped with flat concrete capstones. The eastern face of the upper tier states, "Erected by Robert B Byass & Co. To the glory of God and in memory of those men in their employ who gave their lives for their country in the Great War 1914-18." The edge of the capstone on the middle tier references World War II, 1939 - 1945. A concrete tablet inset into the masonry below lists the names of the men who died, which continue on the face of the lowest tier.
Local climate
War Memorial 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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