Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garden gateway with gates and attached wall at Ewenny Priory (house)
Ewenny, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 3 March 1998
- Locality
- Ewenny Priory
- Community
- Ewenny
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48835, -3.56815
- Cadw reference
- 19468
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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
The gateway forms the entrance to the main garden from the Stable Court at the rear of Ewenny Priory (house).
History
Early C19 gateway, part of the extensive programme involving remodelling of house c 1806 and landscaping of grounds. Wall shown onTithe Map of 1842 abutting house E at junction of old and new wings, as now, but extending W towards the wall joining N and S gatehouses; this latter area probably replanned and most of W section of wall demolished when W side of stable courtyard re-developed 1870s.
Exterior
Gateway comprises tall ashlar piers with shallow pyramidal caps surmounted by large stone orb finials, swept metal gates with curved braces, decorative rail and spear finials. Adjoining wall is of roughly dressed stone and abuts the house to E with a small surviving section to W.
Reason for designation
Included as a structure relating to the early C19 replanning of house and garden and as an imposing entrance gateway; group value with other buildings of Ewenny Priory in particular the house itself, the Stable Court, Ewenny Priory Church and Church of St Michael
Nearby in the register
- Ewenni PrioryPrioryunder 1 mi
- Ewenny Priory (house)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Stable Court W Range at Ewenny Priory (house)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Stable Court E Range at Ewenny Priory (house)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.