Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mausoleum
Llandwrog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Glynllifon, Llandwrog, Gwynedd, designated on 29 April 1952.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 29 April 1952
- Locality
- Glynllifon
- Community
- Llandwrog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.06793, -4.29144
- Cadw reference
- 20464
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 118 Nevin (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Surrounded by trees on a knoll within the parkland approximately 1km south-east of the house and 0.5km south-east of Fort Williamsburg.
History
Begun by the 2nd Lord Newborough in 1826 but unfinished when he died in 1832. The 3rd Lord Newborough continued the work until the major fire of 1836 after which time attention was diverted to the house and completion of the mausoleum was abandoned having cost £10,000. It has therefore never been used for its intended purpose.
Glynllifon was the seat of the Wynn family and Sir Thomas John Wynn became the 1st Lord Newborough in 1776. The house was rebuilt after a fire 1836-48 by Edward Haycock, architect of Shrewsbury.
Exterior
Circular tower built of coursed local rubble, slightly battered to base and then narrowed above ground floor cornice. There are three dressed stone, segmental arched, windows to the top and a dressed stone 4-centred arched gateway to the south.
Interior
Brick-vaulted central lobby with winding stone staircase to left and round-headed arch into flat-roofed perimeter passage to right leading to a cruciform ground floor chamber. The original intention had been to have a 2nd floor chapel, now a plain octagonal chamber with groined vault.
Reason for designation
Listed as a C19 folly with origins as a rare example of an estate mausoleum and for its special interest to the history of Glynllifon.
Nearby in the register
- Boundary Wall to Glynllifon ParkDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outer Defensive Wall to Fort WilliamsburgDefenceunder 1 mi
- Barracks at Fort WilliamsburgDefenceunder 1 mi
- Armoury at Fort Williamsburg including attached screen wallsDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.