Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Bier-House at St Mary's Church
Nercwys, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 12 December 1994
- Locality
- Nercwys
- Community
- Nercwys
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.13507, -3.14503
- Cadw reference
- 15228
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
In the churchyard, adjoining the N agricultural range of Plas yn Llan and flush with its E gable.
Exterior
C19 bier-house, single storey with modern, mono-pitch corrugated iron roof. Rubble with brick W (entrance) face. Here a large dressed stone lintel with fielded panel decoration(re-used) above a modern boarded door. 2 blocked ventilation slits to the N side.
Adjacent to this the S churchyard gates, contemporary with Scott's restoration of 1882-4. Plain sandstone gate-piers with conical capping. Iron gates with simple fleurs-de-lis and arrow decoration. Abutting these and stepped down, the rubble retaining wall of the churchyard. This follows the line of the road around to the NW where there is a small pedestrian gate with plain gate-piers and in similar style. The wall then continues along the W and SW sides of the church, enclosing the old churchyard in a rough L before terminating at its junction with the rear wall of the N agricultural range of Plas yn Llan. The later cemetery walls to the W are not included.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with St. Mary's church and associated listed items.
Nearby in the register
- Sundial in St Mary's ChurchyardGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Plas yn LlanDomesticunder 1 mi
- L-Shaped Range of Farm Buildings at Play Yn LlanAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- St Mary's Parish ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.