MOUNTAIN ASH

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Reference WMO/187630

Address:

Hospital Road

Mountain Ash

Wales

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Allegory (eg: Victory)
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
  • Stone Stone (any)
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: An emotional sculpture of Victory with raised hand and a fallen figure at her feet. This is mounted on a cenotaph like monument with bronze figures of soldiers in relief on each side above inscriptions. This stands on a substantial base on a square, 3 stepped platform.
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12 o'clock face: THE GREAT WAR 1914 -1918/ SONS OF THIS TOWN/ AND DISTRICT,/ LET THIS OF YOU BE SAID:/ THAT YOU WHO LIVE/ ARE WORTHY OF YOUR DEAD./ THESE GAVE THEIR LIVES/ THAT YOU WHO LIVE MAY REAP/ A RICHER HARVEST/ ERE YOU FALL ASLEEP./ 3 o'clock face: "FOR IN THEIR PASSING/ THEY HAVE CONQUERED DEATH,/ AND THROUGH THE YEARS SHALL/ SHINE THEIR UNDIMMED YOUTH,/ WHOSE DAUNTLESS COURAGE/ WAS THE LIVING BREATH/ OF FREEDOM AND OF CHIVALRY/ AND TRUTH."/ 6 o'clock face: TO THE GLORIOUS DEAD/ THEIR NAME LIVETH/ FOR EVERMORE/ ERECTED BY/ THE WORKMEN AND OFFICIALS OF/ MESSRS NIXON’S WORKMEN’S INSTITUTE/ MOUNTAIN ASH/ WHITSUNTIDE 1922/ THE SITE OF THIS MEMORIAL WAS GENEROUSLY GIVEN/ BY LORD AND LADY ABERDARE./ 9 o'clock face: TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ REMEMBER WITH HONOUR/ THOSE OF THIS TOWN/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN/ WORLD WAR II. 1939 – 45/ EU HENWAU BYTH A GOFIR. (Translation: Their names will be remembered forever.)

Grade II (Wales)

80905

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