Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garden steps parallel to south front of St Beuno's (Lower Part)
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
- 53.25663, -3.38043
- Cadw reference
- 26467
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
About 20 m south of St Beuno's College, on the axis of a formal garden.
History
Possibly contemporary with the college, the first phase of which was completed in 1849 to the design of J A Hansom. The steps existed in their present form by 1871, and are shown on the Ordnance Survey map.
Exterior
The lower part of a long formal flight of garden steps; this part is below the formal garden, the other part above. This part below (to the west) is a triple flight. The upper part consists of ten flights more widely spaced. Low side walls with copings. The lower part has a central handrail.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with St Beuno's College.
Nearby in the register
- The Tremeirchion CrossReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St Beuno's CollegeEducationunder 1 mi
- Terrace retaining wall parallel to west front of St Beuno'sEducationunder 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.