Memorial

Llantwit Major - WW1 and WW2

Llantwit Major

Source: Copyright Mark Newton

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Current Location

Square at the junction of Wine Street and Church Street, Church Street, Llantwit Major, Vale Of Glamorgan, South Glamorgan, CF61 1SG, Wales

SS 96705 68743

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Type of Memorial: Cross
WMR Reference Number: 6700
Description: Sturdy Celtic cross set on a tapering plinth and a two-stepped base, with flower troughs, on a platform surrounded by a stone wall. The plinth has granite tablets with WW1 names. In front of the cross is a stone tablet in the form of a book with WW2 names.
Inscription: Column: TO THE/ HONOURED/ MEMORY OF/ THOSE FROM/ LLANTWIT/ MAJOR/ WHO DIED FOR/ THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919. Plinth: (Names) Book: TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THOSE/ OF LLANTWIT-MAJOR WHO FELL IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR/ (Names)

Maker(s): Mr E Thomas, Designer
Sponsor Type: public
Additional Cost/Sponsorship Information: The Town Council has a book listing financial contributions made to the memorial.
Maintenance History: 2014: Column and book re-engraved using a £2,370 grant from War Memorials Trust. 2006: Refurbished. The inscriptions in the plinth, which had become difficult to read, have been covered with tablets of black polished granite with the with the roll of honour now in embossed style of lettering. Inscriptions in the book are becoming difficult to read. 1990: The Llantwit-Major Town Council has employed C J Ball Stone-Masons of Barry to clean and re-cut lettering of both the cross and the book. 1983-1984: The railing around the memorial was erected, free of charge by a resident who manufactured them at his engineering firm at Llandow Industrial State. 1947-1948: Prayer book was erected.