Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Churchyard Wall at Church of the Holy Martyrs
Mathry, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Mathry, Pembrokeshire, designated on 1 March 1963.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 1 March 1963
- Community
- Mathry
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94571, -5.08737
- Cadw reference
- 12937
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 209 St David's (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in hilltop centre of village, surrounding churchyard.
Exterior
Uncertain date, probably C19, churchyard wall in rubble stone with rough stone coping enclosing large rectangular churchyard. Gateway on W side, curved angles, and at S end of W side are inset two cross-inscribed stones, the left one found as a gatepost at Tregidreg Farm in 1904, the right one removed from a wall at Rhoslanog Farmhouse 1901.
Cross inscribed stones are scheduled Ancient Monument Pe 150.
Nearby in the register
- Two Pre-Norman Gravestones in ChurchyardCross-marked stoneunder 1 mi
- Church of the Holy MartyrsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box at the General StoresCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding to E.of High RoostDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.