Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Stone Seat of Huw Morys at Erw Gerrig Farmhouse
Ceiriog Ucha, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pont y Meibion, Ceiriog Ucha, Wrexham, designated on 30 August 1985.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 30 August 1985
- Locality
- Pont y Meibion
- Community
- Ceiriog Ucha
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.91045, -3.19885
- Cadw reference
- 1312
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 137 Oswestry (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located in the garden to the S of Erw Gerrig Farmhouse. The seat is against a high rubble stone boundary wall which runs S from the L-hand side of the house, and faces E.
History
Believed to be C17 and relocated when the road layout was altered.
Huw Morys (Eos Ceiriog), 1622-1709, poet and Royalist, became well known throughout Wales for his poetry relating to the Civil War. His family moved to Pont y Meibion Farm in 1647 and he spent much of his life there. He is buried at Llansilin Church where he was also Churchwarden.
Exterior
Rubble stone surround set forward from boundary wall and containing a niche in the form of a seat, with slightly cambered stone lintel. The back is inlaid with slate, which formerly had an eroded description ''''''''HMB''''''''; arm rests of slate and narrow stone seat in the style of a misericord. Approached by a path flanked by hedges.
Reason for designation
Listed for its strong associations with Huw Morys (1622-1709), the distinguished Welsh bard of Pont y Meibion.
Nearby in the register
- Monument to Huw Morys, including boundary walls and gateCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Farm Building to the S of Pont y Meibion FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Pont y MeibionTransportunder 1 mi
- Former House S of the WoolpackDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.