Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Entrance gates to Broncastell
Melindwr, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Capel Bangor, Aberystwyth, Melindwr, Ceredigion, designated on 26 May 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 May 2004
- Locality
- Capel Bangor
- Town
- Aberystwyth
- Community
- Melindwr
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.40411, -3.97988
- Cadw reference
- 82803
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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 · 163 Aberystwyth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on N side of A44 some 100m E of Penllwyn chapel
History
Entrance gates and piers to Broncastell, villa of the 1860s. Similar ironwork on churchyard gates and elsewhere suggest that it was made in Aberystwyth.
Exterior
Entrance gatepiers of tooled grey stone with cross-gabled caps of tooled sandstone flanked by curved low walls of similar grey stone with sandstone coping carrying iron railings with cast-iron decorative finials. Matching outer piers.
Reason for designation
Included as a distinctive Victorian entrance gateway and for group value with Broncastell.
Nearby in the register
- BroncastellDomesticunder 1 mi
- Penllwyn Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, chapel house and schoolroom including railings and gatesReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lewis Edwards Memorial outside Penllwyn Calvinistic Methodist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Milestone at Capel BangorTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.