Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Grave of Mary Jones
Bryn-Crug, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bryn Crug, Tywyn, Gwynedd, designated on 15 August 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 15 August 2000
- Locality
- Bryn Crug
- Town
- Tywyn
- Community
- Bryn-Crug
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.60995, -4.05390
- Cadw reference
- 23899
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
In the graveyard behind Capel Bethlehem, in the centre of Bryn Crug.
History
The grave is of Mary Jones, well-known for her epic walk from Llanfihangel to Bala in 1800 when she was 16 to obtain a Welsh language Bible from the Revd Thomas Charles, the eminent Methodist preacher, an event leading eventually to the formation of the British and Commonwealth Bible Society.
Exterior
The headstone is in granite, by R R Davies of Tywyn, with a gabled head. It has a rope margin and is engraved with a floral band at the head, and a long inscription in both Welsh and English to the memory of Mary Jones, recording her epic walk in 1800 to acquire a personal copy of the Bible. It is set on an inscribed plinth stone, recording that it was set up by the Merionethshire Sunday Schools members, probably c1920. It is surrounded by cast iron railings with knob and fleur terminals enclosing a further headstone by R O set flat, to Mary, widow of Thomas Lewis, a weaver of Bryn Crug, d.1864.
Reason for designation
Included as a memorial to a young woman whose single pious act has stood as a landmark in the history of Non-conformity in Wales.
Nearby in the register
- Water lift pump near Pentre-Uchaf, BryncrugWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Mile MarkerTransportunder 1 mi
- Water lift pump by Pont FathewWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Ty'n-y-winllanDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.