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Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
22350
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/09/1999
Date of Amendment
15/09/1999
Name of Property
Sundial in the churchyard of the Church of St Beuno
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Clynnog
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Clynnog-fawr
Easting
241432
Northing
349670
Street Side
NW
Location
The sundial now stands in the churchyard approximately 3m from the SW corner of the Chapel of St Beuno.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
The sundial is Irish Celtic type of slab-dial forming a cross at its head, and is probably of the C10-early C12.
Exterior
The cross consists of a vertical slab of granite, 500mm wide and 125mm thick and approximately 2m high (reduced by c30cm) with a wheel cross head, drilled through to take a gnomon. Eight radial lines to the lightly inscribed hour circle, which is set out on the octaval system used in Anglo-Saxon times, where the 24 hours are marked as 8 'tides'. The reverse is plain.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an important and well preserved sundial cross of western Celtic pattern, of a type also known in Ireland, but thought to be unique in Wales, and probably still standing in its original location on a major religious site.
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