Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Walls to Chapel and Ty Capel
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
- 52.76402, -4.78688
- Cadw reference
- 20056
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 in front of chapel and chapel house and along path down to Abbey ruin.
History
Enclosing walls to chapel and chapel house and approach path, later C19 to typical Newborough estate pattern.
Exterior
Rubble stone walls with stepped roughly squared stones as coping. Walls run on both sides of footpath along side of chapel and front of Ty Capel and along both sides of path up from Abbey ruins and also enclose the rears of both chapel and Ty Capel. 2 large square piers to chapel gateway. Similar walls enclose garden N of Ty Capel, with lean-to outbuiding on back wall.
Reason for designation
Included for group value, and landscape value as seen from Abbey precinct below, forming part of a pattern of similar walls, a characteristic feature of the island.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-Inscribed Stone in the Chapel, Bardsey IslandCross-marked stoneunder 1 mi
- Inscribed Stone in the Chapel, Bardsey IslandInscribed Stoneunder 1 mi
- The ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ty CapelDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.