Trelewis War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 November 2021. Memorial.
Trelewis War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- steep-step-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 9 November 2021
- Type
- Memorial
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
War memorial. Life-size statue of WWI soldier in trench cap, carved from Sicilian white marble and facing E, head bowed and hands on stock of an upturned rifle. Stood on a corniced square tapering pillar of Forest of Dean stone, two stepped base in a paved area surrounded by iron railings.
Inscriptions in Aberdeen granite on faces of pillar. Inscription on N face reads ERECTED BY THE / INHABITANTS OF TRELEWIS / TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND THE IMMORTAL MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF THIS VILLAGE / WHO DIED / FOR THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918 / THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE / GWELL ANGAU NA CHWILYDD. E face has names of WWI dead. W face with 1939 – 1945 / IN HONOURED MEMORY OF and the names of the dead of WWII. S face blank. Inscription on the plinth ‘D Williams & Son Abercynon’.
Low stone surround to the front with RESITED BY THE ROYAL ENGINEERS 9TH FEBRUARY 2002.
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