Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
22408
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/09/1999
Date of Amendment
30/09/1999
Name of Property
Cemetery Walls and Gates
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandwrog
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Llandwrog
Easting
245201
Northing
356002
Street Side
Location
Situated to south of very narrow road immediately to east of school at eastern end of village.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Laid out c1860 as part of the third Lord Newborough's replanning of Llandwrog as an estate village.
Exterior
Cemetery walls and gates enclosing rectangular village graveyard measuring approximately 70 x 50m. High roughly coursed rubblestone walls with stone-on-edge coping. Recessed entrances to east and west on north side have square gate piers with ashlar quoins, chamfered plinth and moulded capping, from which hang decorated cast-iron double gates with fleur-de-lys spikes to mid and top rails.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an integral part of the village replanning carried out by the third Lord Newborough in the mid C19. Llandwrog is among the best-preserved estate villages in this part of Wales at this period and the cemetery walls have strong group value with the contemporary school immediately adjacent to the west.
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