Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gates and Gate-piers at main entrance to New Cemetery
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
- 51.81849, -3.03141
- Cadw reference
- 17245
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 drive entrance to the New Cemetery from the 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. These gate-piers are presumed to be contemporary with the chapel and probably also designed by E A Johnson, architect of Abergavenny.
Exterior
Tall pair of Gothic gate-piers of bull-nosed rubble with enormous freestone caps in the manner of tabernacles. These are gabled and panelled with lancets and trefoils and are themselves surmounted by domical octagonal caps with foliated finials (missing to right). The wrought-iron gates are similarly Gothic with dog-bars and lock-bars. The entrance is flanked by curved rubble walls that turn outwards to join the boundary wall at the roadside.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the New Cemetery Chapel and Lychgate.
Abergavenny New Cemetery is included in the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens in Wales No PGW (Gt) 37.
Nearby in the register
- New Cemetery ChapelReligious, 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.