Site Record

Llandovery town war memorial and chain-link surround (1924), situated on island site opposite Nos 3 to 5 Broad Street.
The monument is a bronze soldier in greatcoat and cap holding a reversed rifle, on a tapering grey granite pedestal on a base of three granite steps. An incised panel on the front has inscribed a First World War (1914-19) inscription, and on the side a Second World War (1939-45) inscription in a similar panel. The memorial and lawns to the east and west are surrounded by a low chain-link fence with two chains to each section on short cast-iron posts with ball finials, on rendered plinth.
Made by Boultons of Cheltenham, the statue is a casting of one of the four figures on the LNER memorial outside Euston Station, London (sculptor unknown, memorial designed by R.Wynne Owen). It cost £900 and the five parts of the granite pedestal were said to represent the five years of the Great War. A chain-link fence is shown on granite posts around the memorial itself after c.1930, and a photograph in Llandovery Official Guide of 1952 shows the coping of the present enclosure but not the posts and chains.
(Cadw listing database)

RCAHMW, 4 February 2014