Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Price Mausoleum at the Parish Church of St Mor
Llandderfel, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 31 January 2001
- Locality
- Llanfor
- Community
- Llandderfel
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.91754, -3.58062
- Cadw reference
- 24580
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 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
Located prominently within the churchyard to the N of the church.
History
Built by Richard J L Price in 1887 as a mausoleum for himself and his family. The structure was apparently built from the proceeds of a winning horse named Bendigo.
Exterior
Square mausoleum approximately 4m square and 3.5m high, with pyramidal slate roof and modern verge boards. The structure is constructed of squared, snecked granite blocks on a chamfered plinth and has stepped angle buttresses to the front corners. Tall chamfered, Tudor-arched entrance to the main (S) face, of sandstone with boarded door and incised dedicatory inscription across the voussoirs: 'As to my latter end I go to seek my jubilee: I bless the good horse Bendigo who built this tomb for me: Richard John Lloyd Price 1887.' The rear (N face) has a simple intersecting tracery window of sandstone with iron grille; triangular vent louvre to the rear roof pitch.
Reason for designation
Listed as a Victorian mausoleum of unusual and interesting origins.
Group value with other listed items at the Parish Church of Llanfor.
Nearby in the register
- Parish Church of St MorReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Sundial Base at the Parish Church of St MorCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Lychgate and adjoining Churchyard Revetment Wall at the Parish Church of St MorReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- L-shaped Agricultural Range at Pen-Isa'r-LlanAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.