Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
20052
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/06/1998
Date of Amendment
26/06/1998
Name of Property
Newborough Cross
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Aberdaron
Town
Locality
Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island
Easting
212020
Northing
322180
Street Side
Location
Situated in separately walled enclosure just N of the Abbey graveyard.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Very large memorial cross to the 3rd Baron Newborough erected by the Hon F G Wynn in 1891. It was made by Messrs Hugh Jones & Co, Seiont Marble Works, Caernarfon, of Anglesey marble from the Moelfra Quarries, owned by J R Roberts, Pentraeth. It is 8.53m high and weighs over 30.4 tonnes.
Exterior
Memorial cross, massive tooled blocks of grey stone, the cross itself a single monolith with sheer tapering shaft and wheel-cross head with incised decoration of 3 sunflower roundels in arms and vesica with monogramme in centre. Plain square base on massive monolith square pedestal with inscription and plinth of 2 massive slabs, all unornamented. Inscription to Sir Spencer Bulkely Wynn, 5th Baronet, 3rd Baron Newborough of Glynllifon and Bodfean 1803-1888, buried here 1889. Rear inscription records that cross was erected in 1891 by F G Wynn.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an impressive memorial in the revived Celtic style, one of a series of memorial crosses in the Abbey graveyard.
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