Mausoleum, Llandwrog, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.0679 / 53°4'4"N

Longitude: -4.2914 / 4°17'29"W

OS Eastings: 246566

OS Northings: 354754

OS Grid: SH465547

Mapcode National: GBR 5H.BN0X

Mapcode Global: WH43T.14RW

Plus Code: 9C5Q3P95+5C

Entry Name: Mausoleum

Listing Date: 29 April 1952

Last Amended: 30 September 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 20464

Building Class: Commemorative

ID on this website: 300020464

Location: Surrounded by trees on a knoll within the parkland approximately 1km south-east of the house and 0.5km south-east of Fort Williamsburg.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Llandwrog

Locality: Glynllifon

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

Begun by the 2nd Lord Newborough in 1826 but unfinished when he died in 1832. The 3rd Lord Newborough continued the work until the major fire of 1836 after which time attention was diverted to the house and completion of the mausoleum was abandoned having cost £10,000. It has therefore never been used for its intended purpose.

Glynllifon was the seat of the Wynn family and Sir Thomas John Wynn became the 1st Lord Newborough in 1776. The house was rebuilt after a fire 1836-48 by Edward Haycock, architect of Shrewsbury.

Exterior

Circular tower built of coursed local rubble, slightly battered to base and then narrowed above ground floor cornice. There are three dressed stone, segmental arched, windows to the top and a dressed stone 4-centred arched gateway to the south.

Interior

Brick-vaulted central lobby with winding stone staircase to left and round-headed arch into flat-roofed perimeter passage to right leading to a cruciform ground floor chamber. The original intention had been to have a 2nd floor chapel, now a plain octagonal chamber with groined vault.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a C19 folly with origins as a rare example of an estate mausoleum and for its special interest to the history of Glynllifon.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Boundary Wall to Glynllifon Park
Bordering the historic parkland to Glynllifon, now Glynllifon College.
II* Outer Defensive Wall to Fort Williamsburg
Forming a perimeter to the fort which is approximately 0.5km south-east of the house and reached by the south drive.
II* Barracks at Fort Williamsburg
At the south-east corner of Fort Williamsburg which is situated approximately 0.5km south-east of the house
II* Armoury at Fort Williamsburg including attached screen walls
Facing into the former parade ground and backing onto the Barracks at the south-east corner of Fort Williamsburg which is situated approximately 0.5km south-east of the house.
II Former reservoir on hill to north-east of Fort Williamsburg
Situated approximately on the flat hilltop approximately 540m to north-east of Fort Williamsburg and to due east of the house.
II Boundary wall to Glynllifon Park (that part forming Community boundary with Llandwrog)
One stretch situated adjacent to a track on the west side of the A 487 approximately 1km north of Penygroes and another section along the by-road between Penygroes and Llanllyfni and to north-east.
II* Gatehouse at Fort Williamsburg
Built into the bank on the north side of the fort accessed from the main north entrance via a footbridge across the ditch; faces into the former parade ground. Fort Williamsburg is approximately 0.5k
II* Tunnel Passage at Fort Williamsburg
On the northern side of the Fort linking the former Parade Ground and the Tower and beyond to the outer bastions. Fort Williamsburg is approximately 0.5km south-east of the house.

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Mausoleum

A Grade II Listed Building in Llandwrog, Gwynedd