Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Churchyard Gates and Piers
Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 15 April 1994
- Community
- Cilgerran
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.05651, -4.63927
- Cadw reference
- 14495
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at east entry to churchyard.
Exterior
1833 gates and piers. The piers are rusticated Cilgerran stone with plinth and pyramid capstone. Below the capstone, fluted panel and horizontally reeded angles. The right hand pier is inscribed '1833 the gift of A A Gower Esq of Glandovan'. Short length of square rubble stone wall with slate coping each side. In the wall to the left is a plaque reading '1833 these pillars, iron gates, grating and adjoining wall together with the wall to enlarge the approach to the entrance gates and stone hedge to the glebe land were done at the expense of A A Gower Esq of Glandovan out of reverend respect to the mother church and for the accommodation of the Rector, parishioners and those frequenting it.'
Pair of broad wrought iron gates with down-curved top-rails, spearhead dog-bars and scroll work to dog-bars and hanging stiles.
Reason for designation
Group value with the Church of St Llawddog.
Nearby in the register
- Gower and Logan Memorial in ChurchyardCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Church of St LlawddogReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Inscribed Stone in ChurchyardInscribed Stoneunder 1 mi
- The RectoryDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.