Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Jefferys Wilkins memorial in churchyard
Llanfrynach, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanfrynach, Brecon, Powys, designated on 28 July 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 28 July 2005
- Locality
- Llanfrynach
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Llanfrynach
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.92288, -3.34637
- Cadw reference
- 84825
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 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)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 213 Brecon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in the churchyard at Llanfrynach just W of tower, to which the railings are attached.
History
Memorial to Jeffreys Wilkins of The Priory, Brecon, died 1819, his wife Catherine Parry died 1827, and Charlotte wife of John Parry Wilkins, died 1826. John Parry Wilkins changed the family name in the 1820s to De Winton. The inscription to Jeffreys Wilkins relates that 'he was the first to put into practice that improved system of husbandry which has since so much distinguished the county of Brecon'. The Wilkins family founded the Brecon Old Bank.
Exterior
Memorial, Bath stone with slate plaques. Large pedestal with ogee-moulded plinth, inset square slate plaques in moulded surrounds, and moulded cornice. Plaques have lettered inscriptions. Above are three shallow steps in red sandstone under a big Bath stone urn, heavily gadrooned below a broad wave-moulded ring, and the upper part curved inward and fluted under a curved cap that may have carried a finial.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as a large late Georgian funerary memorial with good iron railings, of group value with the church.
Nearby in the register
- Early Medieval Cross in St Brynach’s Church, LlanfrynachCrossunder 1 mi
- Churchyard Cross at Church of St BrynachReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St BrynachReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Clifton memorial and railings in the churchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.