Records of Cadw and predecessors

Division within BD

1931-1987

Records of Cadw and predecessors relating to the maintenance of monuments and historic buildings in Wales.

Records of the Historic Buildings Council for Wales are in BD 34. Reports of the Ancient Monuments Branch are in BD 42 and ancient monuments and historic buildings files of Cadw and predecessors are in BD 68

Records of Ancient Monuments Branches are in

See also the Department of the Environment,

Records of the Ancient Monuments Board for Wales are in WORK 48

Public Record(s)

English

• Cadw, 1984-1984
• Ministry of Public Building and Works, Ancient Monuments Branch, 1962-1969
• Ministry of Works and Buildings, Ancient Monuments Branch, 1940-1942
• Ministry of Works and Planning, Ancient Monuments Branch, 1942-1943
• Ministry of Works, Ancient Monuments Branch, 1943-1962
• Office of Works, Ancient Monuments Branch, 1912-1940
• Welsh Office, Ancient Monuments Branch, 1969-1991

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Topics

Ancient Monuments and Historical Buildings

Responsibility for ancient monuments in Wales passed successively from the Office of Works to the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Public Building and Works and, on 1 April 1969, to the Secretary of State for Wales. The Ancient Monuments Board for Wales and the Historic Buildings Council for Wales both now reported to him.

In April 1991, responsibility for ancient monuments passed to Cadw, the Welsh Historic Monuments Executive Agency.