Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
4889
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/01/1971
Date of Amendment
23/08/2002
Name of Property
Statue of Buddha
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Penrhyndeudraeth
Town
Locality
Portmeirion
Easting
259003
Northing
337174
Street Side
Location
Within a Round Aedicular Structure at the foot of the Pantheon.
Description
Broad Class
Commemorative
Period
History
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.
Erected 1963-4 to house a statue of the Buddha which was used during the filming of the Inn of the Sixth Happiness in 1958, starring Ingrid Bergman; the film was shot partly around Plas Brondanw, CWE's home.
Exterior
Over life-sized statue of Buddha in gilded plaster; this is contained within a small 4 columned shelter of painted rubble with rounded red pantiled roof. There is a decorative ironwork balustrade to the front and a flight of access steps winding up to the R.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as one of a number of buildings and structures designed by the eminent architect and conservationist Sir Clough Williams-Ellis for his visionary Portmeirion villiage.
Group value with other listed items at Portmeirion.
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