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Latitude: 53.111 / 53°6'39"N
Longitude: -4.2057 / 4°12'20"W
OS Eastings: 252457
OS Northings: 359368
OS Grid: SH524593
Mapcode National: GBR 5L.84TB
Mapcode Global: WH54S.C2JB
Plus Code: 9C5Q4Q6V+CP
Entry Name: War Memorial
Listing Date: 21 July 1999
Last Amended: 21 July 1999
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 22034
Building Class: Commemorative
ID on this website: 300022034
Location: Situated on the north-east side of the main road (A 4085) running through Waunfawr a little to the south-east of the T-junction with the road leading to the village school.
County: Gwynedd
Community: Waunfawr
Community: Waunfawr
Built-Up Area: Waunfawr
Traditional County: Caernarfonshire
Tagged with: War memorial
Built in the 1920s to commemorate the men of Waunfawr who fought and died in the First World War.
Ashlar obelisk standing on square stone plinth with flight of 7 steps to front, the whole on a paved base with a low wall and iron gates and railings to front. The obelisk itself is of rectangular section with moulded plinth and shallow pyramidal top surmounted by a cross and flanking mortar shells. Immediately below the cross are the usual metal poppy wreath surmounted by 2 demi-figures of service men and below again the inscription "EV/ HABERTH/ UCHAF/ YN Y/ RHYFEL/ MAWR/ MCMXIV". The names of the fallen are commemorated on a rectangular brass plate set in a pedimented panel to the obelisk's plinth, with below a smaller plate to those who died in the Second World War.
Included as a well-designed First World War Memorial occupying a prominent position in the village street scene.
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