Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Mortuary
Llanddeiniolen, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Health and Welfare
- Date of designation
- 7 February 1989
- Locality
- Gilfach Ddu
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Llanddeiniolen
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.12490, -4.11897
- Cadw reference
- 4150
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located immediately to the north-west of the former hospital at Dinorwic Slate Quarry on the edge of the levelled site.
History
Built in 1906 to serve the adjoining quarry hospital which was for quarry employees and their families and was financed by the men’s own contributions; it provided free medical care, a weekly payment during sickness, pension and burial expenses.
Exterior
Small single-storey structure with rear gable end built into hillside. Snecked slate slab construction; slate roof. Front gable end with finial and pendant to bargeboards; modern slate datestone "1906" above central boarded door. Small rectangular window to each return.
Interior
Interior has 2 slate slab coffin tables on red brick piers.
Reason for designation
Included for its group value with the former Quarry Hospital and for its historic interest as an early and well-preserved example of this building type.
Nearby in the register
- Former Hospital and boundary wallsHealth and Welfareunder 1 mi
- Locomotive ShedTransportunder 1 mi
- Incline and DrumhousesIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Vivian Slate Quarry, Inclines, Walia & associated structuresQuarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.