Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
22652
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/11/1999
Date of Amendment
04/11/1999
Name of Property
Griffith Family Monument
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanddeiniolen
Town
Locality
Bethel
Easting
252373
Northing
365372
Street Side
Location
Situated in the graveyard immediately to the rear of Capel Bethel near the chapel's north-western corner.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
C19 monument and railed enclosure.
Exterior
Monument and railed enclosure. Cut slate slabs forming square pedestal with stepped plinth and capping and ogee-arched inscription panels; ring shafts to corners and above a smaller pedestal repeating details of that below except with rectangular panels (blank) and globe finial; the whole set in a low railed enclosure with spiked chain linking fleur-de-lys finialed twisted standards. Inscriptions in Welsh to panels of lower pedestal commemorate Y Parch. David Griffith (1792-1875), his wife, Ellen (1795-1885) and their daughters, Mary (d.1850) and Margaret (d.1870).
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a prominent and distinctive monument to long-standing C19 minister of Capel Bethel with which the monument has strong group value.
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