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Latitude: 52.9134 / 52°54'48"N
Longitude: -4.0983 / 4°5'53"W
OS Eastings: 259003
OS Northings: 337174
OS Grid: SH590371
Mapcode National: GBR 5R.NDY4
Mapcode Global: WH55T.01Q9
Plus Code: 9C4QWW72+9M
Entry Name: Statue of Buddha
Listing Date: 14 January 1971
Last Amended: 23 August 2002
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 4889
Building Class: Commemorative
ID on this website: 300004889
Location: Within a Round Aedicular Structure at the foot of the Pantheon.
County: Gwynedd
Community: Penrhyndeudraeth
Community: Penrhyndeudraeth
Locality: Portmeirion
Traditional County: Merionethshire
Tagged with: Statue
Portmeirion was designed and laid out by the celebrated architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis (1883-1978) following his purchase of the estate, then called Aber Iâ, in 1926. The village evolved over several decades and was still being added to in the 1970s.
Erected 1963-4 to house a statue of the Buddha which was used during the filming of the Inn of the Sixth Happiness in 1958, starring Ingrid Bergman; the film was shot partly around Plas Brondanw, CWE's home.
Over life-sized statue of Buddha in gilded plaster; this is contained within a small 4 columned shelter of painted rubble with rounded red pantiled roof. There is a decorative ironwork balustrade to the front and a flight of access steps winding up to the R.
Listed as one of a number of buildings and structures designed by the eminent architect and conservationist Sir Clough Williams-Ellis for his visionary Portmeirion villiage.
Group value with other listed items at Portmeirion.
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