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Medieval doorway to left of entrance gates to the Old Vicarage and enclosing walls

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanddew, Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.9672 / 51°58'1"N

Longitude: -3.3764 / 3°22'35"W

OS Eastings: 305534

OS Northings: 230753

OS Grid: SO055307

Mapcode National: GBR YP.LC3J

Mapcode Global: VH6BS.FTC9

Plus Code: 9C3RXJ8F+VC

Entry Name: Medieval doorway to left of entrance gates to the Old Vicarage and enclosing walls

Listing Date: 25 September 1951

Last Amended: 25 January 2005

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 6797

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

ID on this website: 300006797

Location: To left of entrance gates to the Old Vicarage just N of the crossroads in the centre of the village.

County: Powys

Town: Brecon

Community: Llanddew (Llan-ddew)

Community: Llanddew

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

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History

Doorway of part of an entrance range to medieval Llanddew Castle, probably late C13 or early C14, attached to a section of walling to left on medieval site but of uncertain date and facing over small later C19 paved garden enclosed by low walls.
Llanddew Castle was occupied in the C12 by Giraldus Cambrensis, as Archdeacon of Brecon 1175-1203. He called it 'a small residence. .... well adapted to literary pursuits and the contemplation of eternity'. Archbishop Baldwin of Canterbury stayed at Llanddew on his tour of Wales with Giraldus in 1188. The Castle was owned by the Bishops of St Davids, derelict by the C16. Sold in the 1650s, but returned to the see of St Davids after the Restoration.
The doorway has a C14 character, and is illustrated in the 1741 Buck engraving of the castle.

Exterior

Small C14 pointed doorway with recessed curved moulding to jambs and arch. Moulded hoodmould carried on a corbel to right and on a short column shaft rising from a lower corbel to left. Attached length of dry stone wall to right. Immediately to right of doorway wall ends with a C19 stone cap as left gatepier of entry to former vicarage.
The low C19 enclosing walls are of squared rock-faced grey stone with stepped stone coping. Gate to front right between two piers with roughly pyramidal stone caps. Modern iron gate.

Reasons for Listing

Included as important remaining fragment of the outer enclosure of the medieval bishops' house at Llanddew, well set in C19 walled enclosure. Scheduled Ancient Monument Br 057 (POW).

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