Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Sundial in S garden at Talygarn
Pont-y-Clun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 15 August 2000
- Locality
- Talygarn
- Community
- Pont-y-Clun
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.51034, -3.39625
- Cadw reference
- 23918
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 S side of the house, below the lower terrace wall.
History
An Edwardian sundial first shown on the Ordnance Survey of 1914, added to the earlier terraces of the formal garden S of the house erected in 1893.
Talygarn was purchased by G T Clark, the prominent industrialist and antiquary, in 1865. The present house retains the core of an earlier house and was built mainly 1879-82 with further important additions in 1892-4 and the early C20. The gardens and park were laid out from 1877 with formal gardens to the S, W and N of the house, and with informal woodland grounds centred on a lake to the S of the house.
Exterior
A shaped sundial of reconstituted stone standing on an octagonal stepped plinth of sandstone. The stem has twisted fluting while the polygonal head is in the form of a crocket capital. The gnomon is now missing.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Talygarn and other associated listed items.
Nearby in the register
- Lower terrace wall in S garden at TalygarnGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Garden wall, gates and gate piers bounding S garden at TalygarnDomesticunder 1 mi
- Upper terrace wall in S garden at TalygarnGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- TalygarnHealth and Welfareunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.