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Latitude: 53.3086 / 53°18'31"N
Longitude: -4.6329 / 4°37'58"W
OS Eastings: 224675
OS Northings: 382311
OS Grid: SH246823
Mapcode National: GBR GMYY.LL9
Mapcode Global: WH31B.T31C
Plus Code: 9C5Q8958+FR
Entry Name: Cenotaph
Listing Date: 25 July 1994
Last Amended: 25 July 1994
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 14749
Building Class: Commemorative
Also known as: Cenotaph, Victoria Road (W Side)
Holyhead Cenotaph
ID on this website: 300014749
Location: Opposite Victoria Terrace.
County: Isle of Anglesey
Community: Holyhead (Caergybi)
Community: Holyhead
Built-Up Area: Holyhead
Traditional County: Anglesey
Tagged with: Cenotaph War memorial
War memorial in Cornish granite. Unveiled 15 September 1923; by L F Roslyn, following style of Lutyens’ Whitehall Cenotaph but with addition of bronze reliefs.
Tomb chest set on tall pylon based on stepped plinth. Tomb chest has inscriptions on broad sides, and bronze wreaths on narrow sides. Below, narrow sides have bronze reliefs of soldier and sailor (signed L F Roslyn 1920); broad sides have bronze sword flanked by bronze plates recording names of fallen in Great War. Added tablets on narrow sides of base record names of fallen in Second World War, and Falklands, 1982; broad sides have Welsh and English inscriptions in bronze lettering.
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