Full Report for Listed Buildings


Summary Description of a Listed Buildings


Reference Number
22416
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
30/09/1999  
Date of Amendment
30/09/1999  
Name of Property
Sundial at the Church of St Twrog  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Llandwrog  
Town
 
Locality
Llandwrog  
Easting
245092  
Northing
356077  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated on mound near the south-west corner of St Twrog's Churchyard.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
Mid-C18 sundial. Brass plate to the top of the sundial is inscribed "1746 The Gift of R.G. Rector". Chamber beneath was formerly the so-called Death House for the parish, the registers showing that the bodies of seafarers found occasionally on the shore were brought here before burial.  

Exterior
Local stone. Tapering baluster shaft with moulded capping and plinth on octagonal base. Inscribed brass plate with gnomon to top. Mound on which sundial sits covers stone chamber with brick barrel vault, approached down steep flight of slate steps (see History).  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved mid-C18 sundial, which has group value with St Twrog's Church and its churchyard wall.  

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