Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Y Garreg Fawr
Llanbadarn Fawr, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanbadarn Fawr, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, designated on 25 October 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 25 October 2002
- Locality
- Llanbadarn Fawr
- Town
- Aberystwyth
- Community
- Llanbadarn Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.40842, -4.05968
- Cadw reference
- 27050
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 163 Aberystwyth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated just N of the war memorial in The Square at the bottom of Primrose Hill in the centre of the village.
History
Flat stone of uncertain date, about 2.2 m long, set at the village centre certainly since the C17. Used as a preaching platform by itinerant preachers in the C17 and C18, including Vavasor Powell and Richard Davies.
Exterior
Large broken stone of roughly rectangular shape set horizontally on top of stone pedestal of tooled squared blue-grey stones, part of the enclosure behind the War Memorial of 1924. Pedestal with iron plaque ' Y Garreg Fawr. This ancient structure belongs to the Powells of Nanteos as Lords of the Manor of Llanbadarn Fawr.'
Reason for designation
Included for historical interest as an ancient and folkloric stone.
Nearby in the register
- The War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Padarn House including front railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lychgate to SE of Church of St PadarnReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ty Mawr and railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.