Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
26/06/1998
Date of Amendment
26/06/1998
Name of Property
Walls to Chapel and Ty Capel
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Locality
Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island
Location
Situated in front of chapel and chapel house and along path down to Abbey ruin.
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
History
Enclosing walls to chapel and chapel house and approach path, later C19 to typical Newborough estate pattern.
Exterior
Rubble stone walls with stepped roughly squared stones as coping. Walls run on both sides of footpath along side of chapel and front of Ty Capel and along both sides of path up from Abbey ruins and also enclose the rears of both chapel and Ty Capel. 2 large square piers to chapel gateway. Similar walls enclose garden N of Ty Capel, with lean-to outbuiding on back wall.
Reason for designation
Included for group value, and landscape value as seen from Abbey precinct below, forming part of a pattern of similar walls, a characteristic feature of the island.
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