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Memorial to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales

A Grade II Listed Building in Cilmery, Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.1519 / 52°9'6"N

Longitude: -3.4617 / 3°27'42"W

OS Eastings: 300091

OS Northings: 251407

OS Grid: SO000514

Mapcode National: GBR YL.6FZP

Mapcode Global: VH5DH.Y59P

Plus Code: 9C4R5G2Q+Q8

Entry Name: Memorial to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales

Listing Date: 21 December 2000

Last Amended: 21 December 2000

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 24484

Building Class: Commemorative

ID on this website: 300024484

Location: Set back from the road approximately 300m W of the centre of Cilmery.

County: Powys

Community: Cilmery (Cilmeri)

Community: Cilmery

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

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History

Erected in 1956 to mark the place where Llywelyn II, the last native prince of Wales, was killed in a skirmish with English soldiers in December 1282.

Exterior

A tall prehistoric-style menhir on a stepped concrete base, set on a grassy mound. The monument stands within a railed enclosure, with stone steps to the entrance, flanking which are engraved polished stones with English and Welsh engravings: 'Near this spot was killed our Prince Llywelyn'.

Reasons for Listing

Listed for its national historic interest as the memorial to one of the greatest of medieval Welsh Princes.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II Glan Irfon
    A farmhouse approximately 0.6km S of the centre of Cilmery and reached by a farm road on the S side of the A483 immediately E of Cefn Llewelyn.
  • II Church of St David or St Llyr
    The church stands in a churchyard on the S side of a bend in the Afon Irfon. It is reached down a long track N off a minor road some 3.5km W of Builth Wells.
  • II Milestone E of Cilmery village
    On the W side of the junction with a minor road to Llanganten church and approximately 0.4km E of the centre of Cilmery.
  • II Milestone S of Cilmery Farm
    Approximately 1.2km SW of the centre of Cilmery.

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