Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wyatt Memorial at the Church of St Tegai
Llandygai, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 24 May 2000
- Locality
- Llandygai
- Town
- Bangor
- Community
- Llandygai
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.21737, -4.09693
- Cadw reference
- 23366
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
Located directly to the south of the chancel of the Church of St Tegai.
History
Erected c1820 by the children of Benjamin and Sarah Wyatt (see description of monument).
Exterior
Large slate slab pyramidal monument on square plinth of 3 steps with traces of fitting sockets for railed enclosure to bottom step. North-east face has long eulogistic inscription to Benjamin Wyatt (d.1818, aged 73) "for upwards of 30 years the Chief Agent to the Penrhyn Estates" and another to his wife, Sarah (d.1815, aged 68); inscription on plinth records that as a "testimony of filial reverence and affection this sepulchre was erected at the sole and joint expence of their surviving children". Inscriptions on north-west face to Mary (d.1806, aged 20), Benjamin and Sarah's 5th daughter and to their youngest son, Arthur, who died in Bengal of a fever in June 1824, aged 28. South-east face has inscription to their 2nd daughter, Charlotte, who died 1815, aged 41 the wife of James Greenfield and the south-west face an inscription to Benjamin and Sarah's 6th son, James (1795-1882) and his widow, Sarah (1800-96).
Reason for designation
Included at II* as an exceptionally fine churchyard monument of unusual pyramidal form commemorating Benjamin Wyatt, the very able and pioneering agent to the Penrhyn Estate in the late C18/early C19, and other members of the Wyatt family.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St TegaiReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Neuadd TalgaiEducationunder 1 mi
- The Old School HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gate piers, gates, walls and railings to churchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.