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Wyatt Memorial at the Church of St Tegai

A Grade II* Listed Building in Llandygai, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2174 / 53°13'2"N

Longitude: -4.0969 / 4°5'48"W

OS Eastings: 260084

OS Northings: 370977

OS Grid: SH600709

Mapcode National: GBR 5R.178B

Mapcode Global: WH548.1DCB

Plus Code: 9C5Q6W83+X6

Entry Name: Wyatt Memorial at the Church of St Tegai

Listing Date: 24 May 2000

Last Amended: 24 May 2000

Grade: II*

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 23366

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

ID on this website: 300023366

Location: Located directly to the south of the chancel of the Church of St Tegai.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Bangor

Community: Llandygai (Llandygái)

Community: Llandygai

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Monument

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History

Erected c1820 by the children of Benjamin and Sarah Wyatt (see description of monument).

Exterior

Large slate slab pyramidal monument on square plinth of 3 steps with traces of fitting sockets for railed enclosure to bottom step. North-east face has long eulogistic inscription to Benjamin Wyatt (d.1818, aged 73) "for upwards of 30 years the Chief Agent to the Penrhyn Estates" and another to his wife, Sarah (d.1815, aged 68); inscription on plinth records that as a "testimony of filial reverence and affection this sepulchre was erected at the sole and joint expence of their surviving children". Inscriptions on north-west face to Mary (d.1806, aged 20), Benjamin and Sarah's 5th daughter and to their youngest son, Arthur, who died in Bengal of a fever in June 1824, aged 28. South-east face has inscription to their 2nd daughter, Charlotte, who died 1815, aged 41 the wife of James Greenfield and the south-west face an inscription to Benjamin and Sarah's 6th son, James (1795-1882) and his widow, Sarah (1800-96).

Reasons for Listing

Included at II* as an exceptionally fine churchyard monument of unusual pyramidal form commemorating Benjamin Wyatt, the very able and pioneering agent to the Penrhyn Estate in the late C18/early C19, and other members of the Wyatt family.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II* Church of St Tegai
    Located at north-eastern end of village.
  • II Neuadd Talgai
    Situated directly to the north of the Church of St Tegai with the wall to Penrhyn Park to the north; separated from the churchyard by the railings running along the northern side of its yew-lined aven
  • II The Old School House
    Situated directly to the north of the Church of St Tegai with the wall to Penrhyn Park to the north; separated from the churchyard by the railings running along the northern side of its yew-lined aven
  • II Gate piers, gates, walls and railings to churchyard
    Enclosing the churchyard of St Tegai's Church.
  • II Ysgol Llandygai & School House
    Situated in centre of village to south-west of church; school has playground to front and front garden of School House is boarded by substantial rubblestone block wall with regularly spaced buttresses
  • II Horse Drinking Trough and Fountain
    Built into the park wall to Penrhyn Castle on the north side of the road between Llandygai and Tal-y-bont approximately 40m west of the bridge over the Afon Ogwen.
  • II The Anchorage
    Situated in fairly extensive grounds immediately west of the main entrance to Neuadd Talgai; rubblestone walling to roadside with entrance on west; park wall to Penrhyn Park forms northern boundary.
  • II Pont Tal-y-bont (partly in Llanllechid community)
    Spans the Afon Ogwen on the road between Llanygai and Tal-y-bont; park land of Penrhyn Park to north.

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