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
20464
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
29/04/1952  
Date of Amendment
30/09/1999  
Name of Property
Mausoleum  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Llandwrog  
Town
 
Locality
Glynllifon  
Easting
246566  
Northing
354754  
Street Side
 
Location
Surrounded by trees on a knoll within the parkland approximately 1km south-east of the house and 0.5km south-east of Fort Williamsburg.  

Description


Broad Class
Commemorative  
Period
 

History
Begun by the 2nd Lord Newborough in 1826 but unfinished when he died in 1832. The 3rd Lord Newborough continued the work until the major fire of 1836 after which time attention was diverted to the house and completion of the mausoleum was abandoned having cost £10,000. It has therefore never been used for its intended purpose. Glynllifon was the seat of the Wynn family and Sir Thomas John Wynn became the 1st Lord Newborough in 1776. The house was rebuilt after a fire 1836-48 by Edward Haycock, architect of Shrewsbury.  

Exterior
Circular tower built of coursed local rubble, slightly battered to base and then narrowed above ground floor cornice. There are three dressed stone, segmental arched, windows to the top and a dressed stone 4-centred arched gateway to the south.  

Interior
Brick-vaulted central lobby with winding stone staircase to left and round-headed arch into flat-roofed perimeter passage to right leading to a cruciform ground floor chamber. The original intention had been to have a 2nd floor chapel, now a plain octagonal chamber with groined vault.  

Reason for designation
Listed as a C19 folly with origins as a rare example of an estate mausoleum and for its special interest to the history of Glynllifon.  

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