Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Memorial to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales
Cilmery, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cilmery, Powys, designated on 21 December 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 21 December 2000
- Locality
- Cilmery
- Community
- Cilmery
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.15188, -3.46169
- Cadw reference
- 24484
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 196 Builth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the road approximately 300m W of the centre of Cilmery.
History
Erected in 1956 to mark the place where Llywelyn II, the last native prince of Wales, was killed in a skirmish with English soldiers in December 1282.
Exterior
A tall prehistoric-style menhir on a stepped concrete base, set on a grassy mound. The monument stands within a railed enclosure, with stone steps to the entrance, flanking which are engraved polished stones with English and Welsh engravings: 'Near this spot was killed our Prince Llywelyn'.
Reason for designation
Listed for its national historic interest as the memorial to one of the greatest of medieval Welsh Princes.
Nearby in the register
- Tower Hill Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Glan IrfonDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St David or St LlyrReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Milestone E of Cilmery villageCommunicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.