Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Downing Hall Inscribed Stone (now in Whitford Church)
Whitford, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Inscribed Stone
- Period
- Early Medieval
- Community
- Whitford
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.29367, -3.28263
- SAM number
- FL013
- Cadw record number
- 2828
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 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the scheduled ancient monument.
The monument consists of an inscribed stone, a commemorative monument in the form of a stone which has been inscribed with symbols, probably dating to the medieval period. The Downing Hall inscribed stone is a triangular block of stone inscribed "hic iacit mulier bona nobili". The original location of the stone is uncertain. It was moved to Dowing Hall by Pennant before 1798.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of the organisation and practice of medieval Christianity. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. An inscribed stone may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
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- Lychgate at the Church of St Beuno and St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Tomb of Moses GriffithReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Jasmine HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.