Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Bier House in St Andrew's Churchyard
Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 3 May 2002
- Locality
- St Andrews Major
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Dinas Powys
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.43539, -3.24086
- Cadw reference
- 26508
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
In the SW corner of the churchyard facing E.
History
An unusual example of previously more common type of churchyard building; contains the bier on which coffins are carried for funerals. A building is shown in this area on the Tithe Map of 1840 though not on the first edition OS map surveyed 1878.
Exterior
Small single storey rubble stone building with ashlar dressings and a deep pitched slate roof. Gable end facade has a chamfered and decoratively stopped Tudor-arched doorway with a small rectangular 2-light chamfered mullioned window above; similar window in opposite gable end.
Reason for designation
Listed as a survival of an unusual building type. Group value with the church, the cross and the Old Rectory.
Nearby in the register
- The Old RectoryDomesticunder 1 mi
- Churchyard cross in St Andrew's ChurchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St AndrewReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Garn-hill and attached garden terraceGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.