Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
1. Chest Tomb to SE of Church of Saint Mary
Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 10 November 1994
- Community
- Rhuddlan
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.29056, -3.46923
- Cadw reference
- 14979
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Approx 10m SE of the church, on the SE side of the path that leads to the church porch.
Exterior
Pair of chest tombs, the inscriptions badly worn and illegible, but c1680-1700, and probably of members of the Conwy family. Both have arcaded panels to long sides with guilloche frieze and fluted angle columns. Shields of arms and angels on shorter sides. Guilloche frieze at margins of inscribed slabs.
Reason for designation
Good and rare examples of late C17 memorial sculpture.
Nearby in the register
- 2. Chest Tomb to SE of Church of Church of Saint MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Churchyard CrossReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Chest Tomb to NE of Church of Saint MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.