The War Memorial, screen walls and surrounding railings is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 March 2003. War memorial.

The War Memorial, screen walls and surrounding railings

WRENN ID
quartered-truss-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Constituency
Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
11 March 2003
Type
War memorial
Address
The War Memorial, screen walls and surrounding railings, Pant
OS grid reference
SO 065 090
Coordinates
51.77202, -3.35557
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The War Memorial is an ashlar structure with a square plan, consisting of a base, shaft, and a carved top feature, all set on three steps. The base has a top moulding, while the shaft is a plain, high square form topped with an ogee-moulded cornice. The crowning feature is a cube with a cross in relief on each face, along with a relief laurel wreath and the Prince of Wales feathers, which are incised onto the cube's faces, featuring 3-dimensional tops that curve over the upper edges. At the very top, there is a small recessed feature with a coved square pedestal that carries a royal crown.

Attached to the shaft is a metal plaque commemorating the 1914-1918 war, and another plaque on the base honors the 1939-45 war. The relief crosses on the top feature also have the dates 1914-1918 incised.

The memorial is complemented by a screen wall made of similar stone, which is divided into three canted sections, each featuring outer pilasters on pedestals with carved capitals. The walls between the pilasters have mouldings at the top of the pedestal level and at the base of the capitals, defining a frieze beneath a dentil cornice. This frieze is finely lettered in three sections: "Greater love hath no / man than this that a man lay down / his life for his friends." The rear of the screen wall is constructed from tooled grey limestone.

The entire memorial stands on a platform elevated by three grey limestone steps, which are flanked by two low piers made of ashlar, each with plinths and caps, and a short ramped wall between them. There is an additional low pier on each side, aligned with the upper pier of the steps.

The memorial is enclosed by iron railings on a low coping of rock-faced stone. The railings extend approximately 15 meters, leading to a gate screen at right angles with fixed outer gates that feature a down-curved top rail and scroll work, along with double centre gates that have down-curved top rails meeting at the stile. The stanchions are topped with small ball finials. Another section of railings, about 15 meters long, runs at right angles downhill to the right, with the railings arranged in stepped sections.

Local climate

The War Memorial, screen walls and surrounding railings sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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