Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Monument including railings to Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion) in Pencarreg churchyard
Pencarreg, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 23 June 2003
- Locality
- Pencarreg
- Community
- Pencarreg
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.08406, -4.13952
- Cadw reference
- 81231
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the S side of the church.
History
Daniel Evans (1792-1846) was born at Llanfihangel Ystrad, Ceredigion, and trained as an Anglican priest at Oxford. After a brief period as a chaplain, he resigned due to ill health and returned home to Llanfihangel Ystrad. He settled to a life writing poems and hymns, and was a regular eisteddfod contributor. His poems appeared in Blodau Dyfed (the flowers of Dyfed) (1824), an early anthology of regional Welsh poets, and his work was collected in Gwinllan y Bardd (1831).
Exterior
Two chest tombs enclosed by wrought-iron railings. The tombs are both of freestone with slate slabs, bearing inscriptions (no longer legible). The railings have spike and cast iron urn finials. A gate on the W side is beneath a simple arched overthrow embellished with scrollwork and finial.
Reason for designation
Listed for its cultural-historical interest and as a fine C19 churchyard memorial contributing to the setting of the church.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St PatrickReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Pen-rhiwDomesticunder 1 mi
- Troed-rhiwDomesticunder 1 mi
- Plas CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.