Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Walled Enclosure to Newborough Cross
Aberdaron, Gwynedd, Wales
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
- 52.76444, -4.78767
- Cadw reference
- 20053
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Walled roughly square enclosure around the Newborough cross.
History
Walled enclosure, presumably of 1891 when the cross was erected, but similar to the other walls erected in the late C19 by the Newborough estate.
Exterior
Walls enclosing square area around the cross, rubble stone with squared stone cappings and two square gatepiers at W entry with raised band below cap.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the cross and neighbouring Abbey ruin, and part of the pattern of stone-walled enclosures which is a characteristic feature of the Bardsey landscape.
Nearby in the register
- Newborough CrossReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ruin of Abbey of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St Mary's Abbey, Bardsey IslandAbbeyunder 1 mi
- Hendy and Ty NantDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.