Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gate piers S of St Benedict's Lodge
Llanasa, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Talacre, Llanasa, Flintshire, designated on 30 April 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 30 April 2001
- Locality
- Talacre
- Community
- Llanasa
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.33763, -3.34811
- Cadw reference
- 25129
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesNational Library of ScotlandNational Library of Scotland
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1885 · OS One-Inch (Hills) 1885-1903 (National Library of Scotland)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1930 · OS Popular Edition 1919-1947 (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Location
On the S side of St Benedict's Lodge and the E side of the main drive to Talacre Abbey from Gronant.
History
Talacre Abbey was built 1824-9 by Thomas Jones, architect, for Sir Edward Mostyn, on the site of an earlier house. Jones also designed a number of estate buildings, including the adjacent St Benedict'sLodge, which is shown on the 1839 Tithe map. The gate piers are contemporary with the lodge and stand at the N end of a former drive across the S end of the park at Talacre Abbey. (The corresponding gate piers and lodge at the SE end of the park are ruinous.)
Exterior
Two monolithic octagonal gate piers of pecked stone, with bell-shaped caps. The gate is replaced. On the S side is a later kissing gate.
Reason for designation
Listed as the best preserved of several surviving gateways associated with Talacre Abbey, for group value with St Benedict's Lodge and as an integral component of the landscape park at Talacre Abbey.
Nearby in the register
- St Benedict's LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Kennels, cottage and saw mill at Talacre Abbey (also known as The Kennels)Industrialunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding on NE side of Home Farm at Talacre AbbeyAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Home Farm at Talacre AbbeyAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.