Porthmadog War Memorial

Heritage listing

Reason for designation: Listed as an unusual composite memorial designed as a processional sequence culminating in the hill-top cross. History: A 1914-18 and 1939-45 war memorial designed by Griff Morris, architect of Porthmadog. Exterior: The main memorial is a cross surmounting a small eminence, but its approach was also designed to achieve a sense of procession from street level. The Celtic style cross stands on a stepped plinth. Its square base has inset bronze inscription panels with roll call of the 1914-18 war dead in raised letters. The wheel-headed cross is on a tapering shaft. The memorial is within a square enclosure defined by dwarf walls of coursed stone, with piers set across the angles bearing bronze plaques commemorating the 1939-45 war dead. The memorial is reached by a winding path from street level. An arc of stone steps, with stepped parapet, leads up from the street to a rock-faced trilithon engraved Bryn Coffa . Beyond is a path lined on each side by monoliths, each bearing the inscription of the years of the 1914-18 and 1939-45 wars. Location: Prominently sited on a natural eminence to the N of the town centre and to the N of the railway station.

From Cadw under OGL v3.