Memorial gates, gate-piers and flanking quadrant screens to Pontypool Park. is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 August 1997. War memorial.
Memorial gates, gate-piers and flanking quadrant screens to Pontypool Park.
- WRENN ID
- fossil-lime-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Constituency
- Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1997
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Memorial gates, gate-piers and flanking quadrant screens to Pontypool Park., Pontymoile
- OS grid reference
- SO 282 008
- Coordinates
- 51.7015, -3.03953
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The memorial gates, gate-piers, and flanking quadrant screens at Pontypool Park serve as a War Memorial to World War I. They feature an ironwork screen with central gates, constructed from limestone ashlar, complemented by cast iron railings and gates, as well as bronze plaques. Both the stonework and bronze elements have been heavily overpainted. Dwarf stone walls support panels of intricate ironwork and are punctuated by piers with corniced caps, with the piers at the main gates being taller. The central pair of elaborate iron gates is designed in the early 18th century style and is likely inspired by the Pontypool Park gates on Rockhill Road. The piers display bronze plaques that list the names of the fallen, and one pier bears the inscription: 'THIS MEMORIAL TO THE MEN & WOMEN OF THE DISTRICTS OF ABERSYCHAN AND PONTYPOOL WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR WAS UNVEILED BY MAJOR GENERAL LORD TREOWEN C.B. C.M.G. LORD LIEUTENANT OF MONMOUTHSHIRE DECEMBER 18th 1924'. Additionally, there is a smaller footgate.
Local climate
Memorial gates, gate-piers and flanking quadrant screens to Pontypool Park. receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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