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
4889
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
14/01/1971  
Date of Amendment
23/08/2002  
Name of Property
Statue of Buddha  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Penrhyndeudraeth  
Town
 
Locality
Portmeirion  
Easting
259003  
Northing
337174  
Street Side
 
Location
Within a Round Aedicular Structure at the foot of the Pantheon.  

Description


Broad Class
Commemorative  
Period
 

History
Portmeirion was designed and laid out by the celebrated architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis (1883-1978) following his purchase of the estate, then called Aber Iâ, in 1926. The village evolved over several decades and was still being added to in the 1970s. Erected 1963-4 to house a statue of the Buddha which was used during the filming of the Inn of the Sixth Happiness in 1958, starring Ingrid Bergman; the film was shot partly around Plas Brondanw, CWE's home.  

Exterior
Over life-sized statue of Buddha in gilded plaster; this is contained within a small 4 columned shelter of painted rubble with rounded red pantiled roof. There is a decorative ironwork balustrade to the front and a flight of access steps winding up to the R.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as one of a number of buildings and structures designed by the eminent architect and conservationist Sir Clough Williams-Ellis for his visionary Portmeirion villiage. Group value with other listed items at Portmeirion.  

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