26889

 

II  

Designated  

23/08/2002  

23/08/2002  

Columnar Monument Immediately S of Chantry  

 

Gwynedd  

Penrhyndeudraeth  

 

Portmeirion  

258985  

337192  

 

On a rock outcrop immediately to the S of Chantry.  

Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces  

 

Portmeirion was designed and laid out by the celebrated architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis (1883-1978) following his purchase of the estate, then called Aber Iâ, in 1926. The village evolved over several decades and was still being added to in the 1970s. This monument is made up of one of eight columns acquired in the 1930s and originating as Samuel Wyatt's Colonnade at Hooton Hall, Cheshire. The Ionic columns, with the exception of this example, which was used when Chantry was built in the 1930's, were mislaid for some thirty years; they were eventually found buried beneath a garden which had been laid out on top of them.  

The monument consists of a tall Ionic sandstone column with surmounting turned finial and decorative metal weathervane. On a square plinth, within a semi-circular low brick-walled encosure.  

 

Listed as one of a number of buildings and structures erected by the eminent architect and conservationist Sir Clough Williams-Ellis for his visionary Portmeirion villiage. Group value with other listed items at Portmeirion.