Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Monument to Dafydd William at Croes-y-Parc chapel
Peterston-super-Ely, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 17 September 2002
- Locality
- Peterston-Super-Ely
- Community
- Peterston-super-Ely
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.47388, -3.32690
- Cadw reference
- 26948
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 churchyard immediately S of the chapel.
History
Monument erected to Dafydd William, unveiled by Lord Pontypridd 1910, sponsored by the Congregational Church, the Baptists of East Glamorgan and other Christian admirers. David/Dafydd William was one of the founders of the chapel and responsible for the first chapel building of 1777; died 1794. He was also a Welsh language hymn-writer. A plaque in English commemorates him inside the chapel but as part of a later Welsh revival the larger monument with inscription in Welsh was erected in the cemetery.
Exterior
Imposing late Victorian churchyard monument. Granite shaft on a rock-faced plinth. Recessed inscription panel with long Welsh inscription of applied leaded letters, a Celtic knot at base. Circular head framed with cable moulding enclosing a copper roundel depicting a biblical scene. Blank to rear.
Reason for designation
Listed for its historic interest and for group value with the chapel.
Nearby in the register
- Croes-y-Parc Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 1 Pwll-y-Min CrescentDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Pwll-y-Min CrescentDomesticunder 1 mi
- 3 Pwll-y-Min CrescentDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.