Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
18665
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/08/1997
Date of Amendment
05/08/1997
Name of Property
Mausoleum in Churchyard of the Church of St George
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Abergele
Town
Abergele
Locality
St George
Easting
297350
Northing
375844
Street Side
Location
Set close to the N boundary of the churchyard, W of the W end of the church, adjacent to the site of the former church.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built in 1835-6 by Thomas Jones, architect of Chester, as a mausoleum for the Hughes family, and commissioned by William Lewis Hughes, first Baron Dinorben, created 1831, whose arms, impaling those of his first wife, Charlotte Margaret Grey, it bears. She died in 1835.
Exterior
Built of Derbyshire sandstone, in an early Gothic revival style. Cubic in form, with buttresses at each corner, rising to heavily crocketed spirelets, each face gabled and similarly crocketed, and capped by a terminal fleur-de-lys. Three sides have blind 4-light Perpendicular traceried windows, but the S side has a carved coat-of-arms, Hughes, quartered with his wife, Charlotte Margaret Grey, with dragon and armed 'native Briton' supporter, and a large crest on a baronial coronet, wreath over. Below the arms, a scroll reading RHAD DUW A RHYDDID. The pyramidal roof is of stone slabs.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an unusual and particularly fine churchyard mausoleum, and of group value with the church of St George.
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