Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Griffith Family Monument
Llanddeiniolen, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 4 November 1999
- Locality
- Bethel
- Community
- Llanddeiniolen
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.16494, -4.20973
- Cadw reference
- 22652
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
Situated in the graveyard immediately to the rear of Capel Bethel near the chapel's north-western corner.
History
C19 monument and railed enclosure.
Exterior
Monument and railed enclosure. Cut slate slabs forming square pedestal with stepped plinth and capping and ogee-arched inscription panels; ring shafts to corners and above a smaller pedestal repeating details of that below except with rectangular panels (blank) and globe finial; the whole set in a low railed enclosure with spiked chain linking fleur-de-lys finialed twisted standards. Inscriptions in Welsh to panels of lower pedestal commemorate Y Parch. David Griffith (1792-1875), his wife, Ellen (1795-1885) and their daughters, Mary (d.1850) and Margaret (d.1870).
Reason for designation
Included as a prominent and distinctive monument to long-standing C19 minister of Capel Bethel with which the monument has strong group value.
Nearby in the register
- Capel Bethel including railings to forecourtReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Sunday School/Vestry at Capel Bethel including railings to forecourtReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Obelisk Memorial to Robert GriffithReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- MilestoneTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.