Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dovecote
Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
A Grade II* listed building in Llantwit Major, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen, Vale of Glamorgan, designated on 22 February 1963.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 22 February 1963
- Locality
- Llantwit Major
- Town
- Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
- Community
- Llantwit Major
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.40699, -3.48872
- Cadw reference
- 13253
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1858 · 20. Bridgewater. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 262 Pontypridd (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 262 Pontypridd (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
About 110m south-west of the Church of St. Illtud.
History
C13 dovecote of the monastic grange at Llantwit Major which belonged to Tewkesbury Abbey. The very complete survival of this structure is in sad contrast to the almost wholly demolished tithe barn which stood immediately to the north and was complete until 1836.
Exterior
Cylindrical structure with walls of roughly coursed limestone and with a corbelled domical roof; the occasional course, especially the one about 300mm above the door arch, is much more carefully squared. The walls are about 1m thick, with a narrow segmentally arched doorway, the head of which looks as if it has been rebuilt.
Interior
Inside there are tiers of square niches or nesting holes.
Reason for designation
Included and highly graded as an important and very complete survival of a key part of an early medieval monastic grange, and as one of the fine medieval dovecotes of South Wales.
Scheduled Ancient Monument No. 140 (GLA).
Nearby in the register
- Llantwit Major Dovecotdovecoteunder 1 mi
- Llantwit Major Monastic Settlement (Site of)Grangeunder 1 mi
- The Old Police StationCivilunder 1 mi
- Llantwit Major GatehouseGatehouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.