Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Fountain in Garden at Bodrhyddan Hall
Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 10 November 1994
- Locality
- Bodrhyddan
- Community
- Rhuddlan
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.29704, -3.43265
- Cadw reference
- 14996
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
Forms the centre-piece of the formal garden to the S of the house.
History
The formal garden was laid out to designs of Nesfield when he remodelled the house in 1872-5. The fountain was probably an original component of the scheme.
Exterior
Stone, a wide lower basin with central fountain which has 2 tiers of basins carried on balusters.
Reason for designation
Significant as the focal point of the formal garden at Bodrhyddan.
Nearby in the register
- 2. Ornamental Vases in Garden at Bodrhyddan HallGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- 1. Ornamental Vases in Garden at Bodrhyddan HallGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Bodrhyddan HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2. Stables at Bodrhyddan HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.