Griffith Family Monument is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 November 1999. Monument.

Griffith Family Monument

WRENN ID
former-stone-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
4 November 1999
Type
Monument
Address
Griffith Family Monument, Bethel, Llanddeiniolen
OS grid reference
SH 523 653
Coordinates
53.16496, -4.20974
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Griffith Family Monument is a memorial structure enclosed by a railing. It features cut slate slabs that form a square pedestal with a stepped base and a capping. The monument has ogee-arched inscription panels and ring shafts at the corners. Above this, there is a smaller pedestal that repeats the details of the lower one, but with blank rectangular panels and a globe finial on top. The entire monument is set within a low railed enclosure, which has a spiked chain linking twisted standards topped with fleur-de-lys finials. The inscriptions in Welsh on the lower pedestal commemorate the Reverend David Griffith (1792-1875), his wife Ellen (1795-1885), and their daughters Mary (who died in 1850) and Margaret (who died in 1870).

Local climate

Griffith Family Monument sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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