Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Sundial at Kilvrough Manor
Pennard, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 10 February 2000
- Locality
- Kilvrough
- Town
- Swansea
- Community
- Pennard
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58410, -4.08153
- Cadw reference
- 22834
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the upper lawn on the W side of the house.
History
The present Kilvrough Manor was probably built in the 1770s by William Dawkins as a substantial enlargement of an earlier house, and was surrounded by parkland. The sundial was added in the late C19 and is probably contemporary with alterations to the garden that also included an Italian garden.
Exterior
A shaped reconstituted stone sundial on a square base. The shaft has spiral moulding above moulded lobes. The gnomon is now missing.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Kilvrough Manor and other associated listed items.
Nearby in the register
- Kilvrough ManorDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stable Court at Kilvrough ManorDomesticunder 1 mi
- Boundary wall at Kilvrough ManorGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Entrance gates and gate piers to Kilvrough ManorGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.