Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gateway and forecourt walls to Cathays Cemetery
Cathays, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 May 1975
- Locality
- Cathays Cemetery
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Cathays
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.50023, -3.17866
- Cadw reference
- 13682
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 the main entrance to Cathays Cemetery SE of the Anglican and non-conformist chapels.
History
Built in 1859 for Cardiff New Cemetery and designed by R.G. Thomas, architect of Newport, in collaboration with T. Waring, Borough Surveyor. Thomas also designed the chapels and Cemetery House.
Exterior
A Gothic entrance portal of snecked rock-faced sandstone and lighter freestone dressings and coping. The portal has gabled buttresses, and a central wide gabled entrance flanked by narrower gabled pedestrian entrances. The central 2-centred arch has foliage capitals to an inner roll moulding in the arch, and hood with foliage stops and crocketed finial. Above the arch is a shield decorated with chevrons and under a pointed hood mould. Double iron gates have 4-way finials. The 2-centred outer arches have responds with shafts and stiff leaf capitals, and hoods with foliage stops. Above the arches are shields under pointed hoods (shield missing on the L side). The pedestrian entrances have saddleback copings. Iron gates have scrollwork above a hinged top rail and trident finials. The inner side of the portal is similar to the exterior, but has blank shields over the pedestrian gates.
Dwarf forecourt walls of concave plan curve outwards and terminate in octagonal piers with pyramidal caps (apex of cap missing on the L side) over gablets in each facet. The forecourt wall is surmounted by low iron railings.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-detailed entrance gateway, and for group value with the mortuary chapels and Cemetery House at the finest public cemetery in Wales.
Nearby in the register
- Cemetery House, including stable in yardDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mortuary Chapels at Cathays CemeteryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Roath Park United Reform ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Tomb of Bishop Hedley in Cathays CemeteryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.