Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hearse house at the Church of St Mary
Pentraeth, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 14 January 2003
- Locality
- Pentraeth
- Community
- Pentraeth
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.28282, -4.21530
- Cadw reference
- 80831
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 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set within the churchyard to NE of the Church of St Mary.
History
C18 or early C19 hearse house.
Exterior
Built of rubble masonry with large stones as quoins; slate roof. Doorway is in the SE gable with a ventilation slit in the gable apex over; 2 similar slits along the lateral walls.
Interior
Interior not inspected at the time of the survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a small hearse house of strong vernacular character. Forms a coherent group with the adjacent church of St Mary, for which it was built.
Nearby in the register
- Vivian Memorial CrossesCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Panton Arms HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- Cartshed at Plas GwynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.