Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
18270
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/02/1997
Date of Amendment
24/02/1997
Name of Property
Monument to David Evans
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community
Trealaw
Town
Locality
Trealaw Cemetery
Easting
301321
Northing
191986
Street Side
N
Location
The monument is due east of the cemetery chapel on the corner of the first intersection of the cemetery lanes.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
David Evans 1822-1889 of Bodringallt was, as recorded in the inscription, General Manager of Messrs D Davis and Sons Collieries for 20 years, first chairman of the Ystradyfodwg Schools Board, President of the Rhondda Colliery Officials Association, Chairman of the Ystradyfodwg Board of Health, member of the Glamorgan County County Council and JP for the County of Glamorgan. Monument signed by 'G Evans of Treorky'.
Exterior
This lofty marble monument in gothic style stands on a square stone base formerly surrounded by a marble arcaded kerb now partly dismantled. A red marble plinth supports at a 45% angle a 4 sided inscription section, each panel within a steeply gabled canopy with half round piers with stiffleaf capitals supporting a trefoil headed arch; inscription in metal lettering to David Evans as above and a second short inscription to his wife Mary died 1892 aged 58, the others blank. On a plinth above stands a full size man's figure representing the deceased in contemporary costume holding a scroll with one arm resting on a supporting pillar, looking towards the Rhondda valley.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a fine later Victorian monument, for its historic interest to the Rhondda commemorating a local philanthropist and for group value with Trealaw Cemetery Chapel and monuments to William Evans and Daniel Thomas.
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