Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Jones Family Tomb in the churchyard of St Mary's Church
New Inn, Torfaen, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 7 August 1997
- Locality
- Panteg
- Town
- Pontypool
- Community
- New Inn
- Unitary authority
- Torfaen
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.68547, -2.99848
- Cadw reference
- 18731
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
In the churchyard of the Church of St Mary about 25m south of the south porch.
History
The style of the tomb suggests a date of c1865, but the earliest legible inscription is 1878.
Exterior
Chest tomb of grey limestone in the Gothic style. Vermiculated base, moulded plinth. Corners with dog-tooth ornamentation. Rolled cornice, stepped cap with relief cross. Long sides have sunk panels with inscriptions to the Jones family, on one side to Thomas and Rachel Jones, the date is illegible but is probably c1865. On the other side a better preserved inscription to Martha Jones, died 1878 and her brother William Lewis Jones also died 1878. Both were the children of Thomas and Rachel Jones.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the Church of St Mary, and as a good and well preserved example of a mid/late C19 monument in the Gothic style.
Nearby in the register
- Tomb of William Jacob in St Mary's ChurchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at Ty-coch FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.