Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mausoleum in Churchyard of the Church of St George
Abergele, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 5 August 1997
- Locality
- St George
- Town
- Abergele
- Community
- Abergele
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.26962, -3.54064
- Cadw reference
- 18665
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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
Set close to the N boundary of the churchyard, W of the W end of the church, adjacent to the site of the former church.
History
Built in 1835-6 by Thomas Jones, architect of Chester, as a mausoleum for the Hughes family, and commissioned by William Lewis Hughes, first Baron Dinorben, created 1831, whose arms, impaling those of his first wife, Charlotte Margaret Grey, it bears. She died in 1835.
Exterior
Built of Derbyshire sandstone, in an early Gothic revival style. Cubic in form, with buttresses at each corner, rising to heavily crocketed spirelets, each face gabled and similarly crocketed, and capped by a terminal fleur-de-lys. Three sides have blind 4-light Perpendicular traceried windows, but the S side has a carved coat-of-arms, Hughes, quartered with his wife, Charlotte Margaret Grey, with dragon and armed 'native Briton' supporter, and a large crest on a baronial coronet, wreath over. Below the arms, a scroll reading RHAD DUW A RHYDDID. The pyramidal roof is of stone slabs.
Reason for designation
Included as an unusual and particularly fine churchyard mausoleum, and of group value with the church of St George.
Nearby in the register
- 4 Church StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 5 Church StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St GeorgeReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 6 Church StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.