Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
27050
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/10/2002
Date of Amendment
25/10/2002
Name of Property
Y Garreg Fawr
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Llanbadarn Fawr
Town
Aberystwyth
Locality
Llanbadarn Fawr
Easting
259993
Northing
280931
Street Side
Location
Situated just N of the war memorial in The Square at the bottom of Primrose Hill in the centre of the village.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Flat stone of uncertain date, about 2.2 m long, set at the village centre certainly since the C17. Used as a preaching platform by itinerant preachers in the C17 and C18, including Vavasor Powell and Richard Davies.
Exterior
Large broken stone of roughly rectangular shape set horizontally on top of stone pedestal of tooled squared blue-grey stones, part of the enclosure behind the War Memorial of 1924. Pedestal with iron plaque ' Y Garreg Fawr. This ancient structure belongs to the Powells of Nanteos as Lords of the Manor of Llanbadarn Fawr.'
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for historical interest as an ancient and folkloric stone.
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