Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gate Piers & End Piers, Walls, Railings & Gates at W Entrance to Churchyard
Cowbridge with Llanblethian, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 3 February 1981
- Locality
- Cowbridge
- Community
- Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.46163, -3.44970
- Cadw reference
- 13186
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At W entrance to Churchyard.
History
1866.
Exterior
Wall of stone laid in regular courses with stone coping; tall stone piers with pyramidal coping. Iron railings have uprights with spear-headed finials. Pair of tall, iron gates with double bottom rails with quartrefoil panels; top rails are flat at ends above intersecting tracery but then curving downwards, above uprights with fleur-de-lys finials which rise alternately above middle and top rails.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with church.
Nearby in the register
- 6 & 7 Church StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of the Holy CrossReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Duke of Wellington PH including Rear Wing to Church StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 50 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.