Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
New Cemetery Chapel
Llanfoist Fawr, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 15 March 1996
- Locality
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Llanfoist Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.81799, -3.03116
- Cadw reference
- 17244
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
Prominently sited at the top of the cemetery which is reached from a narrow lane immediately to south of Usk Bridge.
History
The eastern end of New Cemetery was opened in 1894 and is landscaped in the style of a Victorian public park or garden. The chapel was built to designs of E A Johnson, architect of Abergavenny.
Exterior
Early English Gothic style chapel in local rubble with simple freestone dressings, slate roofs and gable parapets with crucifix finials. Composed of a nave with south porch and a stepped down chancel with polygonal east end and north vestry. At the south-east corner is a distinctive bell-tower which is octagonal and has a pyramidal roof; the belfry has deeply splayed lancet openings to each face and there is a staircase doorway to the east side. The chancel has cusped lancets and the vestry has a cylindrical chimney stack. The west end has a Geometric 3-light window. Interior not seen.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of a Victorian cemetery chapel in an important setting.
Group value with the Gates and Gate-piers at the main entrance and the Lychgate.
Abergavenny New Cemetery is included in the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens in Wales No PGW (Gt) 37.
Nearby in the register
- Gates and Gate-piers at main entrance to New CemeteryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lychgate to New CemeteryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Usk Bridge (aka Abergavenny Bridge) (partly in Abergavenny community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Abergavenny BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.