Group of Four Mausolea at the Church of St Sadwrn is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 February 1981. Mausoleum.

Group of Four Mausolea at the Church of St Sadwrn

WRENN ID
small-eave-harvest
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
2 February 1981
Type
Mausoleum
Address
Group of Four Mausolea at the Church of St Sadwrn, Henllan
OS grid reference
SJ 022 681
Coordinates
53.2017, -3.46473
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The group of four mausolea at the Church of St Sadwrn consists of vault structures, including a main mausoleum of pyramidal design, arranged in sequence down a gently sloping ground from left to right. All are constructed from limestone. The first mausoleum, on the left, is dedicated to George Naylor Esq. of Plas-yn-Green, who died in 1831. It takes the form of a fielded-panelled chest tomb set on a square plinth of tooled stone, which formerly had enclosing railings. It features paired side panels and a single end panel, with a moulded base and top. The second tomb is similar in design, with a depressed pyramidal top, and is dedicated to William Davies Roberts of Plas-yn-Green, who died in 1869, Dorothy Roberts, who died in 1863, and the Rev. John Roberts, who died in 1866.

The main mausoleum is a large early 19th-century vault for the Heaton family of Plas Heaton, inscribed with the name of John Heaton. This structure is square and made of dressed limestone blocks, topped with a shallow pyramidal stone roof above a moulded cornice. Each face of the cornice has an inset stone tablet, although the inscriptions are mostly indistinct. The front features two shallow rectangular recesses in the lower section. Adjacent to this is an extension of the Heaton vault, dating from around 1902, which includes a simple stone Celtic cross within a square grassed enclosure, bordered by low parapet walls at the front and right return.

Local climate

Group of Four Mausolea at the Church of St Sadwrn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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