Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Doorway forming entrance to churchyard of Church of St Caffo
Rhosyr, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llangaffo, Rhosyr, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 30 January 1968.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 30 January 1968
- Locality
- Llangaffo
- Community
- Rhosyr
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.19097, -4.32781
- Cadw reference
- 5509
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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 · 105 Carnarvon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set into the SW corner of the wall enclosing the churchyard of the Church of St Caffo, set back from the SE side of the B4419, at the NE end of the village of Llangaffo.
History
Re-set C15 doorway from the old Church of St Caffo; re-set when the new church was built in 1846.
Exterior
Pointed arched doorway with moulded jambs and moulded hoodmould; set into roughly dressed stone entrance with stone capping in SW corner of churchyard enclosed by low rubble wall.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of a C15 doorway, finely detailed and of historic interest as one of the doorways of the original church.
Nearby in the register
- Early Gravestones & Shaft in ChurchyardCross shaftunder 1 mi
- Church of St CaffoReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Capel Bethania, chapel house and schoolroomReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Gateway in field wall of DinamMiscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.