Latitude: 51.4354 / 51°26'7"N
Longitude: -3.2409 / 3°14'27"W
OS Eastings: 313842
OS Northings: 171441
OS Grid: ST138714
Mapcode National: GBR HV.NX2S
Mapcode Global: VH6FK.S51Y
Plus Code: 9C3RCQP5+5M
Entry Name: The Bier House in St Andrew's Churchyard
Listing Date: 3 May 2002
Last Amended: 3 May 2002
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 26508
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
ID on this website: 300026508
Location: In the SW corner of the churchyard facing E.
County: Vale of Glamorgan
Town: Cardiff
Community: Dinas Powys
Community: Dinas Powys
Locality: St Andrews Major
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Architectural structure
An unusual example of previously more common type of churchyard building; contains the bier on which coffins are carried for funerals. A building is shown in this area on the Tithe Map of 1840 though not on the first edition OS map surveyed 1878.
Small single storey rubble stone building with ashlar dressings and a deep pitched slate roof. Gable end facade has a chamfered and decoratively stopped Tudor-arched doorway with a small rectangular 2-light chamfered mullioned window above; similar window in opposite gable end.
Listed as a survival of an unusual building type. Group value with the church, the cross and the Old Rectory.
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