Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wall along S side of churchyard
Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Kidwelly/Cydweli, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, designated on 28 July 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 28 July 1998
- Locality
- Kidwelly/Cydweli
- Town
- Kidwelly
- Community
- Kidwelly
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.73657, -4.30628
- Cadw reference
- 20191
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 229 Carmarthen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1920 · Sheet 100. Llanelly. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on N side of Lady Street, between Parish Room and track to No 17 Lady Street.
History
Late C18 to early C19 churchyard wall, built using industrial slag from mineral smelting.
Exterior
Rubble stone wall, some 2m high to road, with band of squared slag blocks at mid height, and slag block coping of rounded triangular section. 14m from parish room to churchyard gate, with square rubble piers and C20 iron gates. 43m to upper gateway with square rubble piers, stone caps and earlier C19 iron gates with scrolled finials. Short rebuilt length to right of gateway.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with the Church of St Mary, and of interest for the use of industrial slag.
Nearby in the register
- Church of Saint MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Kidwelly Town HallCivilunder 1 mi
- Morfa HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Castle MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.