Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Memorial Cross in graveyard centre
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
- 52.76428, -4.78757
- Cadw reference
- 20050
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
Situated towards the centre of the Abbey graveyard SE of the Abbey ruin.
History
Late C19 memorial cross in Celtic revival style, erected to commemorate the twenty thousand saints supposedly buried on the island.
Exterior
Memorial cross, stone, tall Celtic cross on tapering base with chamfered top. Cross has raised roll edges and raised roundels to centre and 4 arms. Top is finished with a small gabled stone with roll ridge.
Reason for designation
Included as part of the group of Celtic-revival cross memorials in the Abbey environs.
Nearby in the register
- Ruin of Abbey of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St Mary's Abbey, Bardsey IslandAbbeyunder 1 mi
- Graveyard Wall to Abbey of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Memorial Cross in graveyard to SReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.