Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lake Vyrnwy Dam Memorials
Llanwddyn, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Lake Vyrnwy Dam, Llanwddyn, Powys, designated on 26 February 2003.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 26 February 2003
- Locality
- Lake Vyrnwy Dam
- Community
- Llanwddyn
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.76278, -3.45399
- Cadw reference
- 80917
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 136 Bala (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set into a partially artificial rockface at the north-east end of the Vyrnwy Dam, overlooking the dam road.
History
The first plaque is that at the centre, sited on the centreline of the dam road. It commemorates the laying of the first stone of the dam by the Rt. Hon. Edward James, third Earl of Powis on the 14th of July 1881. The work was to the design of Thomas Hawksley and George Frederick Deacon, under the Act authorising Liverpool Corporation to construct the Vyrnwy Waterworks which received Royal Assent in August 1880.
To right and left are plaques commemorating further works on the reservoir and its systems of aqueducts completed in 1910 and 1938.
Exterior
Three bronze plaques of similar size each set into a slab of granite and framed in slate.
Reason for designation
An important memorial explaining one of the finest landscape achievements of Victorian Britain, listed also for group value with the Grade I Vyrnwy Dam.
Nearby in the register
- Memorial Obelisk to Lake Vyrnwy WorkersNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Lake Vyrnwy DamWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Llanwddyn War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Parish Church of St WddynReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.