Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Dean's Steps
Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 30 June 2003
- Locality
- Llandaff
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Llandaff
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.49580, -3.21897
- Cadw reference
- 81280
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the north-east side of The Cathedral Green and part of the important group of buildings surrounding it.
History
It seems likely that the paved steps are a formal mid to late C19 improvement of an existing path which was bounded already on one side by the wall of The Deanery on John Speed's map of 1610. This shows a bridge over the stream from St. Teilo's Well at the foot of the path. The stepping will have been part of the improvements to the environs of the Cathedral contemporary with its rebuilding in the 1850s and 60s and possibly closely comntemporary with the Dean moving into the new Deanery (qv Cathedral Court) in 1863.
Exterior
Granite steps, stone paving and cast iron rails. Flight of steps with a central rail and side gutters running from The Cathedral Green down to the west front of the Cathedral. The steps are flanked by the garden walls of The Deanery and Cathedral Court (qv) which are part of the ensemble.
Reason for designation
Included for group value as a part of the setting for the other listed buildings on The Cathedral Green.
Nearby in the register
- Garden Wall and Gatepiers of Cathedral CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garden Wall of The DeaneryDomesticunder 1 mi
- Llandaff War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- The DeaneryDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.