Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
19345
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/02/1998
Date of Amendment
17/02/1998
Name of Property
Pair of Williams Chest Tombs in the churchyard of the Church of St Mary Magdalene
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Cerrigydrudion
Town
Locality
Cerrigydrudion
Easting
295306
Northing
348729
Street Side
Location
The chest tombs are set side by side in the churchyard, at the SW corner of the church porch.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Erected in the mid and later C19.
Exterior
Constructed completely of blue slate. From the S: (a) the sides fielded and panelled with inward radiused corners, set between twisted corner columns. The edge-moulded ledger is inscribed to Jane, wife of Robert Williams, Cummein, who died 1872 aged 38; other members of the family added later. (b) a similar and slightly taller chest tomb, but with plain corner columns, and inscribed at length to Hugh, son of William Jones, Bant-y-Griafolen a Gladdwyd, d.1823, his wife Jane, d.1832 and other family members added.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the Church of St Mary Magdalene, near the south door of which these monuments are conspicuously placed.
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