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
22416
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/09/1999
Date of Amendment
30/09/1999
Name of Property
Sundial at the Church of St Twrog
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandwrog
Town
Locality
Llandwrog
Easting
245092
Northing
356077
Street Side
Location
Situated on mound near the south-west corner of St Twrog's Churchyard.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Mid-C18 sundial. Brass plate to the top of the sundial is inscribed "1746 The Gift of R.G. Rector". Chamber beneath was formerly the so-called Death House for the parish, the registers showing that the bodies of seafarers found occasionally on the shore were brought here before burial.
Exterior
Local stone. Tapering baluster shaft with moulded capping and plinth on octagonal base. Inscribed brass plate with gnomon to top. Mound on which sundial sits covers stone chamber with brick barrel vault, approached down steep flight of slate steps (see History).
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved mid-C18 sundial, which has group value with St Twrog's Church and its churchyard wall.
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