Statue of Hedd Wyn is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 February 2004. Statue.
Statue of Hedd Wyn
- WRENN ID
- worn-minaret-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 27 February 2004
- Type
- Statue
- Address
- Statue of Hedd Wyn, Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 707 356
- Coordinates
- 52.90257, -3.92322
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Statue of Hedd Wyn is an early 20th-century commemorative memorial dedicated to the poet Hedd Wyn, whose real name was Ellis Humphrey Evans. The statue stands on a rough stone stepped plinth, which features a bronze plaque inscribed with the following text: HEDD WYN / PRI FARDD EISTEDDROD GENEDLAETHOL 1917 / GANWYD EF YM MHLWYF TRAWSFYNYDD / A SYRTHIODD AR ESGAIR PILKEM YN / FFLANDRYS GORFFENAF 31 1917 YN 30 OED / "EI ABERTH NID A HEIBIO EI WYNEB / ANNWYL NID AN ANGO / ER I'R ALMAEN YSTAENIO / EI DWRN DUR YN EI WAEDÔ".
A slate tablet leans against the front face of the plinth, displaying the same inscription. Additionally, there is a slate tablet placed on the ground in front of the memorial that reads: HEDD WYN / THIS STATUE COMMEMORATES THE / DEATH OF THE WINNING BARD AT THE BIRKENHEAD NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD / AUGUST 1917. THE CHAIR WAS AWARDED / POSTHUMOUSLY TO HEDD WYN WHO WAS / KILLED IN ACTION AT PILKIM RIDGE / FLANDERS ON JULY 30TH 1917.
Local climate
Statue of Hedd Wyn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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