Cenotaph (including area Walls and Steps) is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1995. School.

Cenotaph (including area Walls and Steps)

WRENN ID
watchful-plinth-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 March 1995
Type
School
Address
Cenotaph (including area Walls and Steps), Barry
OS grid reference
ST 114 680
Coordinates
51.40452, -3.27496
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Cenotaph is a war memorial made of reconstituted stone, commemorating the men of Barry who fell in the Great War from 1914 to 1918 and in 1939 to 1945, with the inscription "For freedom." The central part of the memorial is a truncated tapering obelisk, which has narrower vertical plain panels on each side that step down. The base features panels with inscriptions in both Welsh and English. The Cenotaph is situated within a slightly raised octagonal area, which is surrounded by low walls and includes steps between the walls.

Local climate

Cenotaph (including area Walls and Steps) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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