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Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
82819
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/05/2004
Date of Amendment
28/05/2004
Name of Property
Chimney at Llancynfelin lead mine
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Llangynfelyn
Town
Machynlleth
Locality
Llangynfelyn
Easting
265136
Northing
292188
Street Side
Location
Situated on the land of Neuadd yr Ynys, but reached by track running S off the B4353 roughly 600m E of church.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Mine chimney, the only remaining above-ground feature of the Llancynfelin or Taliesin lead mine, possibly of very ancient origins, worked in the 1740s. It was revived in 1846 by Matthew Francis and worked by a 36" rotative engine but closed shortly thereafter. The machinery was sold and then when a new attempt to revive it was made in 1854 an engine was brought from Green's Foundry. Aberystwyth. It failed by late 1856. The chimney is presumably of 1854.
Exterior
Cylindrical tapering stone chimney roughly 3.65m in diameter and over 18m tall, with upper 3m of brick and with protruding ring near top. Ground level opening to NW side into chamber at base of chimney, which has three niches to the three other sides.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a prominent landscape feature and one of the last mine chimneys in the region.
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