Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Sundial on W Lawn at Ffynone
Manordeifi, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1994
- Locality
- Ffynnonau
- Community
- Manordeifi
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.01776, -4.56341
- Cadw reference
- 15126
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on terraced lawn to W of mansion.
History
Early C20 stone sundial, probably part of the garden design by F Inigo Thomas for J V Colby to enhance the setting of the house, remodelled 1902-7.
Exterior
Early C20 ashlar baluster sundial on broad octagonal ashlar platform. Vase stem, gadrooned above, octagonal shaft and cornice. Inset brass dial inscribed 'Post tenebras lux 1723'.
Reason for designation
Included for group value as part of an outstanding Edwardian formal garden.
Nearby in the register
- Terrace Wall and Balustrade to W Garden at FfynoneDomesticunder 1 mi
- FfynoneDomesticunder 1 mi
- Terrace, Walls and Balustrades S of FfynoneDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gatepiers, Steps and Walls to N Court at FfynoneDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.