Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Monument to J W Jones and family
Llanwnda, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 28 May 1999
- Locality
- Dinas
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Llanwnda
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.10323, -4.27748
- Cadw reference
- 21812
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 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in the south-east corner of the churhyard to the Church of St Gwyndaf.
History
Commemorates members of the Jones family of Plas-y-Bryn, Caernarfon.
Exterior
Churchyard monument. Flamboyant style ashlar tomb chest with curved ends, decorated with festooned garlands, on stepped plinth, also curved to the ends, surmounted by raised sarcophagus with finial, garlands and tablets; the whole set in rectangular stone surround with twisted iron colonettes linked by decorative iron chains. Main inscription, in Welsh, on tomb chest commemorates J W Jones (1839-96) and his wife, Frances Ann Lloyd Jones (1857-1909); further inscription to plinth, in English, in memory of their son, Capt John Lloyd Jones, MC of the 2nd. battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment, killed in action, March 1916.
Reason for designation
Included as a fine late C19 churchyard monument which has group value with the adjacent church.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St GwyndafReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Tafarn Hen (The Old Tavern)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Plas DinasDomesticunder 1 mi
- MaengwynDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.