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.
Date of Designation
26/06/1998
Name of Property
Graveyard Wall to Abbey of St Mary
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Locality
Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island
Location
Wall enclosing the graveyard with the ruined abbey tower in NW corner.
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
History
Graveyard walls probably later C19 enclosing the island graveyard and presumably part of the monastic site as the tower stands in the NW corner.
Exterior
Walls, rubble stone with squared stone cappings enclosing the rectangular graveyard.
Reason for designation
Listed as part of a group with the Abbey ruins, and one of a series of similar walls forming a striking feature of the Bardsey landscape.
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