Memorial

Abergavenny and District

Tablet

Source: Copyright Bill Zajac

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Current Location

South-east wall of entrance to the Market Hall, Abergavenny Town Hall, Cross St, Abergavenny / Y Fenni, Monmouth, Gwent, NP7 5HD, Wales

SO 29923 14188

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Type of Memorial: Board / Plaque / Tablet
WMR Reference Number: 17563
Description: The marble tablet is supported on two angular corbels and flanked by attached pilasters. A bronze wreath stands on the central truncated gable that surmounts the tablet. The names are arranged in six columns beneath a dedicatory inscription. The name of the monumental masons, Mossfords, is inscribed on the right-hand corbel.
Inscription: ABERGAVENNY & DISTRICT/ WAR MEMORIAL/ 1914 - 1918./ A BED WAS ENDOWED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION/ IN MEMORY OF THE ABERGAVENNY MEN/ WHOSE NAMES ARE RECORDED BELOW WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE DURING THE GREAT WAR/ (Names)/ RURAL AREA/ (Names)

Tablet

Made from: Marble - White

Condition: Good

History Points website: https://historypoints.org/index.php?page=abergavenny-war-memorial-fww (Accessed: 09/07/2021)
Ray Westlake, First World War Graves and Memorials in Gwent, Volume 1 (Wharnecliffe Books, 2001), pp. 21-22