Gelert's Grave is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 November 1998. Grave.

Gelert's Grave

WRENN ID
waiting-courtyard-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
25 November 1998
Type
Grave
Address
Gelert's Grave, Beddgelert, Porthmadog, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 590 477
Coordinates
53.00876, -4.10225
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Gelert's Grave is a memorial site featuring a group of three stones set within an oval enclosure that has modern railings. At the center lies a natural limestone boulder, approximately 1 meter wide. In front of this boulder are two modern incised slate tablets that tell the story of Gelert in both Welsh and English. On either side of the boulder stand two irregular, vertical limestone rocks, which show signs of horizontal water erosion and some likely additional tooling.

Local climate

Gelert's Grave sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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