Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Monument to Parch. Hugh Owen
Llanegryn, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanegryn, Gwynedd, designated on 26 July 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 26 July 2000
- Locality
- Llanegryn
- Community
- Llanegryn
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.62824, -4.06768
- Cadw reference
- 23761
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 149 Barmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The monument stands in the forecourt in front of Capel Ebenezer.
History
The Revd Hugh Owen, of Brynyclydwr, N of Tywyn, 1637-1699, son of the well-connected Owen family and brother of Lewis Owen, was trained at Oxford and became one of the earliest Independent ministers in W and N Wales. At one time (1672) he lived and ministered at Llanegryn, which gave cause for the monument to be erected here on 27 September 1906.
Exterior
Built of rock-faced ashlar stone and pink granite. Two steps of stone, square on plan, rise to a die of 4 courses bearing on the front a polished granite inscription to Hugh Owen, 'un o weinidogion cyntaf Annibynwyr Gogledd Cymru' followed by a long quotation. The die has a chamfered top and carries a polished granite obelisk on a moulded base.
Reason for designation
Included as a memorial to an early Independent minister well-known across North Wales, and as it has group value with the two chapels and vestries.
Nearby in the register
- Capel Ebenezer, with vestry and front railed forecourtReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Capel Bethel, with vestry and front railed forecourtReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- BodegrynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Rhine CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.