Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gladiator statue (north) at Bryn Bras Castle
Llanrug, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 27 August 1999
- Locality
- Bwlch
- Community
- Llanrug
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.14047, -4.17866
- Cadw reference
- 22259
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
One of a pair of statues standing on a small lawned area in the garden to the east of Bryn Bras Castle.
History
One of a number of statues (several have now gone) brought in by Duncan Alves during his works to the gardens and grounds in the 1920s.
Exterior
Statue. Stone figure of gladiator, copied from Antonio Canova's sculpture, commissioned by Pope Pius VII (c.1796), the original of which is now in the Vatican Museum, Rome. The figure stands on a high plinth with moulded base and capping but lacks the disc/shield which it formerly held in the left hand above its head.
Reason for designation
Included as one of a number of garden structures erected during the 1920s, an important period in the development of the gardens and grounds at Bryn Bras Castle.
Nearby in the register
- Gladiator statue (south) at Bryn Bras CastleGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Bryn Bras CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
- Summerhouse at Bryn Bras CastleGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Pan figure and pool in walled 'knot' garden at Bryn Bras CastleGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.