Ebbw Vale Civic War Memorial

  • Dedication of Ebbw Vale War Memorial - Taken by Blaenau Gwent in the First World War Project 24 Sep 1924

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  • Re-dedication of cenotaph on current site - Taken by Blaenau Gwent in the First World War Project 10 May 1950

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  • Ebbw Vale War Memorial - Taken by Blaenau Gwent in the First World War Project 29 Apr 2014

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  • Ebbw Vale War Memorial - Taken by Blaenau Gwent in the First World War Project 09 Nov 2015

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  • Ebbw Vale War Memorial - Taken by Blaenau Gwent in the First World War Project 09 Nov 2015

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  • Blaenau Gwent in the First World War Project - Taken by Blaenau Gwent in the First World War Project 09 Nov 2015

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  • Ebbw Vale War Memorial - Taken by Blaenau Gwent in the First World War Project 09 Nov 2015

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  • Ebbw Vale War Memorial - Taken by Blaenau Gwent in the First World War Project 09 Nov 2015

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  • Ebbw Vale war memorial - Taken by Ffion Jones War Memorials Trust 01 Apr 2023

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  • Ebbw Vale war memorial - Taken by Ffion Jones War Memorials Trust 01 Apr 2023

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  • Setting - locked during visit - Taken by Ffion Jones War Memorials Trust 01 Apr 2023

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Reference WMO/224844

Address:

Libanus Road

Ebbw Vale

Wales

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Cenotaph
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Location: Occupies wedge-shaped iron-railed plot on fork of Libanus Road and Steelworks Road. Construction of grey granite. Tall tapering pedestal with concave base, and tall bronze plaques each side with inscriptions. Plain cornice with bronze laurel-wreaths; then above is bronze figure of a soldier triumphantly waving his tin hat. Pedestal stands on tall slightly stepped plinth, two shallow steps below. Square enclosure with tall granite corner posts with sunken panels and bulbous terminals, originally capped with global lanterns (removed). Corner posts are linked to intervening low pylonic granite posts by two rows of chain-link. (Source: Cadw) Grade: II Date Listed: 29 October 1999 Cadw Building ID: 22528 Reason for Listing: Listed as an unusually elaborate war memorial, in a prominent setting.
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ERECTED IN MEMORY OF OUR GLORIOUS DEAD, 1914 - 1918/ BY THE INHABITANTS OF THE EBBW VALE URBAN DISTRICT AREA/ THEIR NAMES LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

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Grade II (Wales)

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