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Pencarreg War Memorial;Cwmann War Memorial

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NPRN419453
Map ReferenceSN54NE
Grid ReferenceSN5897046800
Unitary (Local) AuthorityCarmarthenshire
Old CountyCarmarthenshire
CommunityPencarreg
Type Of SiteWAR MEMORIAL
Period20th Century
Description
Located in the village of Cwmann, south-east of Lampeter, in a roadside memorial garden setting.
A sculpted memorial on a freestone plinth and tall polished red-granite base. The plinth has red-granite inscription panels added post 1945. The tapering base has gold-lettered inscriptions, and above it is a freestone cornice, acting as a base for the Portland stone figure of an infantryman. (Cadw Listing Database).

Granite pillar-base north-east face: inscription commemorating those who served in the First World War; additional granite plaques below, on the base, commemorating those who served in the Second World War and those who died in it.
Granite pillar south-west face: inscribed names of those who fell in the First World War; on the upper plinth a granite plaque commemorating a soldier who died in Belfast (1972).
Granite pillar north-west face: those of the First World War who died at home.

David Leighton, RCAHMW, 14 October 2013