Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Graveyard Wall to Abbey of St Mary
Aberdaron, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island, Aberdaron, Gwynedd, designated on 26 June 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 26 June 1998
- Locality
- Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island
- Community
- Aberdaron
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.76436, -4.78745
- Cadw reference
- 20049
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 133 Bardsey Island (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Wall enclosing the graveyard with the ruined abbey tower in NW corner.
History
Graveyard walls probably later C19 enclosing the island graveyard and presumably part of the monastic site as the tower stands in the NW corner.
Exterior
Walls, rubble stone with squared stone cappings enclosing the rectangular graveyard.
Reason for designation
Listed as part of a group with the Abbey ruins, and one of a series of similar walls forming a striking feature of the Bardsey landscape.
Nearby in the register
- Newborough CrossReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Memorial Cross in graveyard centreReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Walled Enclosure to Newborough CrossReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ruin of Abbey of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.