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
80917
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/02/2003
Date of Amendment
26/02/2003
Name of Property
Lake Vyrnwy Dam Memorials
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanwddyn
Town
Locality
Lake Vyrnwy Dam
Easting
301985
Northing
319345
Street Side
Location
Set into a partially artificial rockface at the north-east end of the Vyrnwy Dam, overlooking the dam road.
Description
Broad Class
Commemorative
Period
History
The first plaque is that at the centre, sited on the centreline of the dam road. It commemorates the laying of the first stone of the dam by the Rt. Hon. Edward James, third Earl of Powis on the 14th of July 1881. The work was to the design of Thomas Hawksley and George Frederick Deacon, under the Act authorising Liverpool Corporation to construct the Vyrnwy Waterworks which received Royal Assent in August 1880.
To right and left are plaques commemorating further works on the reservoir and its systems of aqueducts completed in 1910 and 1938.
Exterior
Three bronze plaques of similar size each set into a slab of granite and framed in slate.
Interior
Reason for designation
An important memorial explaining one of the finest landscape achievements of Victorian Britain, listed also for group value with the Grade I Vyrnwy Dam.
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