Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Retaining walls, steps, gate-piers and gates to churchyard at Church of St Mary
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 29 February 1996
- Locality
- Welshpool
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.66089, -3.14664
- Cadw reference
- 16639
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
The walls form the boundary of the churchyard on the S and SW sides, with a steep flight of steps leading from Church Bank, and further entrances at t
Exterior
History: The walls were said to have been rebuilt c1830, when the road level was altered. New steps from Church Street were provided in 1877, designed by a Mr Hurst (the borough surveyor), and erected by public subscription. The cast-iron gates at all entrances to the churchyard are all of similar style and were probably installed at the time that these new steps were provided.
Description: Roughly coursed and squared rubble retaining walls with a slight batter, and buttresses. Steps from Church Street have ashlar gate piers with ornate cast-iron gates at their foot, and cast-iron rails; there are similar gates at the Red Bank and Union Street entrances. Cast-iron lamp base mounted on a pier at the Union Street gate.
A prominent feature of the approach to the church.
Reference: M.C.J. 'Welshpool: Notes for the History of the Borough', Montgomeryshire Collections, Vol. 15, 1882, pp.272, 291.
Nearby in the register
- War Memorial in churchyard at Church of St MaryCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Sundial in churchyard at Church of St MaryGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Pair of Inscribed Stones in Union Bridge ParapetTransportunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.