Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gothick Pavilion
Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 14 January 1971
- Locality
- Portmeirion
- Community
- Penrhyndeudraeth
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.91332, -4.09884
- Cadw reference
- 4862
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Facing the Central Piazza on the SE side.
History
Portmeirion was designed and laid out by the celebrated architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis (1883-1978) following his purchase of the estate, then called Aber Iâ, in 1926. The village evolved over several decades and was still being added to in the 1970s.
The Gothick Pavilion was originally built c1815 as a porch for Nerquis Hall, Flintshire, perhaps to designs by Benjamin Gummow. It was re-erected at Portmeirion, in amended form, in 1966, and was dedicated to the memory of William Madocks, as recorded in a plaque of 1973.
Exterior
Pavilion in Gothick style, consisting of a tall loggia with four clustered columns in stone supporting an entablature with frieze of Gothic pattern. Castellated parapet, raised over the centre in pediment form; four tall surmounting obelisk finials topped by urns. Trefoil-headed open arch to the rear wall. A flight of three cobbled steps leads up to the structure.
Reason for designation
Listed as an early C19 porch, formerly at Nerquis Hall, Flintshire, rebuilt and incorporated by the eminent architect and conservationist Sir Clough Williams-Ellis in his visionary Portmeirion villiage.
Group value with other listed items at Portmeirion.
Nearby in the register
- Steps, Piers and Associated Cobbled Pavement Descending From Ladies Lodge to the Hercules StatueGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Chronometer SundialGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- MermaidDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dolphin (Including Royal Dolphin)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.