Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate 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
- 51.81875, -3.03066
- Cadw reference
- 17246
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Pedestrian entrance to east of the main drive entrance; set into the stepped rubble boundary wall along 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. The lychgate is presumed to be contemporary with the chapel and probablyalso designed by E A Johnson, architect of Abergavenny.
Exterior
Gabled timber lychgate with slate roof and terracotta ridge tiling with finials. Arched-braced and with canted tie. Pair of set-back, wrought-iron, Gothic gates with quatrefoil bars. Either side rubble walls curve outwards with dressed stone coping beneath similarly Gothic-detailed railings; gable-capped piers at the point where these flanking walls join the stepped boundary wall.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the New Cemetery Chapel and the Gates and Gate-piers at the main entrance.
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
- New Cemetery ChapelReligious, 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.