Latitude: 53.1849 / 53°11'5"N
Longitude: -3.0272 / 3°1'38"W
OS Eastings: 331453
OS Northings: 365809
OS Grid: SJ314658
Mapcode National: GBR 74.39ET
Mapcode Global: WH88C.G6PP
Plus Code: 9C5R5XMF+X4
Entry Name: The War Memorial
Listing Date: 16 November 1994
Last Amended: 16 November 1994
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 15094
Building Class: Commemorative
ID on this website: 300015094
Location: Prominently situated at the junction of Gladstone Way and the Highway, facing E.
County: Flintshire
Community: Hawarden (Penarlâg)
Community: Hawarden
Built-Up Area: Sandycroft
Traditional County: Flintshire
Tagged with: War memorial
1919-20, by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott of London. A large sandstone obelisk with gabled apex. Beneath this an ogee-headed, moulded niche with crocketted finial and flanking decorative pilasters.
Within, a sculpted figure of Christ on the Cross. Moulded base and low, coped walls infront of monument, the rear wall of which, flanking the obelisk, bears the names of those fallen in the Great War. Inscribed on base of Obelisk: "Gilbert G Scott ARA Architect." Later inset tablets recording the names of those fallen in the Second World War. Returned steps up to enclosure.
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