Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Terrace retaining wall parallel to west front of St Beuno's
Tremeirchion, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 9 April 2002
- Locality
- St Beuno's College
- Community
- Tremeirchion
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.25705, -3.38097
- Cadw reference
- 26466
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
15 m from the west wall of St Beuno's College.
History
The southern half of this wall is probably contemporary with the first buildings of the College, completed to the design of J A Hansom in 1849. The design of the coping suggests there may have been small pillars at intervals, but these are no longer present. When the college was extended to the north in 1873-4 the retaining wall was also extended, and returned into the slope at the north side.
Exterior
A tall retaining wall in local axe-dressed limestone masonry with buttresses and coping. The face is battered. The wall returns at an obtuse angle at the north end after which it dies into the ground slope.
Reason for designation
Integral to the site planning of St Beuno's College, and listed for group value.
Nearby in the register
- St Beuno's CollegeEducationunder 1 mi
- The Tremeirchion CrossReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Garden steps parallel to south front of St Beuno's (Lower Part)Educationunder 1 mi
- Garden steps parallel to south front of St Beuno's (Upper Part)Educationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.