Site Record

Risca war memorial is located in a garden setting behind gated, cast iron railings on the corner of Darren Road and St Mary's Street.
It is in the form of a tapered, decorated granite obelisk supporting a Celtic cross on a stepped plinth atop a tiered granite base three steps up, set on a concrete slab. An inscription on the front (south-west) face of the plinth commemorates both those who served and those who fell in the First World War (unnamed) with a similar inscription in respect of the Second World War added below it. On the rear wall of the memorial enclosure are two inscribed plaques; one related to the First World War, in memory of those from the Risca collieries and District who left to serve; the second, a slate slab, in memory of deceased veterans of post-war nuclear tests.
When visited the gates to the enclosure were locked.

David Leighton, RCAHMW, 15 November 2013