Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gateway to Churchyard
Cenarth, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 2 March 1994
- Community
- Cenarth
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.04477, -4.52395
- Cadw reference
- 14225
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 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on main road opposite the Old Smithy.
Exterior
Later C19 entrance gateway to churchyard. Steep gabled, grey coursed stone with pointed arched entry, chamfered cut-stone voussoirs to arch, cusped trefoil plaque in Bath stone surround above and cement coping to gable. Bath stone finial. Iron gate with urn finial to closing bar.
Plaque is overgrown but said to read 1855, though the iron gate is said to date from 1837.
Reason for designation
Group value with Church of St Llawddog and Three Horseshoes Inn.
Nearby in the register
- Inscribed Stone in St Llawddog's Churchyard, CenarthInscribed Stoneunder 1 mi
- Smithy CottageEducationunder 1 mi
- The Old SmithyDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Three Horseshoes InnCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.