Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Boundary walls to the Church House and Memorial House
Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Churchyard, Ruthin, Denbighshire, designated on 16 May 1978.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 May 1978
- Locality
- Churchyard
- Town
- Ruthin
- Community
- Ruthin
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.11560, -3.31035
- Cadw reference
- 912
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 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Boundary walls facing School Road to the N, and surrounding the garden to Memorial House to the S.
History
Probably late C18-early C19, and possibly contemporary with Memorial House.
Exterior
Bounding the garden to the S of Memorial House and continuing N and W around Church House. On the W side of the garden, the wall is c1.3m high, of random stone with flat dressed stone copings; at the L end, it returns at right-angles to join the SW corner of Memorial House. Towards the R, it contains a boarded door. The S garden wall, which forms a boundary with the churchyard, consists of large blocks of random stone with string course to random stone coping. To the R, the wall projects beyond the junction with the E garden wall and may be earlier. The E wall, fronting a footpath, is of plain rubble stone; it contains a boarded door to L under a concrete lintel. It steps down towards the N as the ground falls, and is abutted by the stone gable end of an outbuilding to Memorial House. Further N the wall becomes irregular and curves round. At School Road, the wall turns sharply to the W and continues as a boundary wall to the N end of Memorial House and the rear of Church House.
Reason for designation
Listed as boundary walls retaining their historic character, and for their contribution to the historic landscape of this fine parochial close. Group value with Memorial House and Church House.
Nearby in the register
- Christ's HospitalNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Memorial HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garden boundary wall E, N&W of the Old CloistersDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Church House (Old Grammar School)Educationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.