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
22652
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/11/1999
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Griffith Family Monument
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanddeiniolen
Town
Locality
Bethel
Easting
252373
Northing
365372
Street Side
Location
Situated in the graveyard immediately to the rear of Capel Bethel near the chapel's north-western corner.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
C19 monument and railed enclosure.
Exterior
Monument and railed enclosure. Cut slate slabs forming square pedestal with stepped plinth and capping and ogee-arched inscription panels; ring shafts to corners and above a smaller pedestal repeating details of that below except with rectangular panels (blank) and globe finial; the whole set in a low railed enclosure with spiked chain linking fleur-de-lys finialed twisted standards. Inscriptions in Welsh to panels of lower pedestal commemorate Y Parch. David Griffith (1792-1875), his wife, Ellen (1795-1885) and their daughters, Mary (d.1850) and Margaret (d.1870).
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a prominent and distinctive monument to long-standing C19 minister of Capel Bethel with which the monument has strong group value.
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