Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Obelisk Memorial to Robert Griffith
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
- 53.16468, -4.20963
- Cadw reference
- 22665
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
Set in forecourt to Sunday School/Vestry at Capel Bethel.
History
Obelisk memorial in railed enclosure commemorating Parch. Robert W Griffith (1836-94), minister of Capel Bethel.
Exterior
Memorial in form of a polished slate-stone obelisk set in a low elaborately decorated iron-railed enclosure with scroll-work, fleur-de-lys finials and standards; pedimented panels to base, on one of which is an inscription in Welsh to Parch. Robert W Griffith.
Reason for designation
Included as a distinctive and prominently situated obelisk memorial which forms a good street group with the directly adjoining Sunday School/Vestry and chapel.
Nearby in the register
- Sunday School/Vestry at Capel Bethel including railings to forecourtReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Capel Bethel including railings to forecourtReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Griffith Family MonumentReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- MilestoneTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.