Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gates, Gatepiers & Churchyard Wall of St Thomas' Church
Neath, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Neath, Neath Port Talbot, designated on 5 January 1989.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 5 January 1989
- Community
- Neath
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.66379, -3.80392
- Cadw reference
- 11777
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 247 Swansea (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Forming the inner boundary of the lane around Church Place. The gatepiers being on the NW side and SW corner of the churchyard.
History
Early C19.
Exterior
Tall, slender rusticated dressed stone gatepiers, crenellated Gothic limestone caps. Cambered ironwork overthrow, scrolled insets bearing central lantern bracket with finials. Ironwork gates with palmette-like finials, dogbars. Stone steps up from roadway.
Stone boundary wall of narrow, regular courses, dressed stone caps, modern railings.
Reason for designation
Group value with St Thomas’ Church and other listed items in Church Place.
Nearby in the register
- Old Town Church of St ThomasReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 8 Wind StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Adrian Hicks & SonCommercialunder 1 mi
- 24 Church StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.